dissipation
noun
[ dɪsɪˈpeɪʃ(ə)n ]
• overindulgence in sensual pleasures; dissipated living.
• "a descent into drunkenness and sexual dissipation"
Similar:
debauchery,
decadence,
dissoluteness,
dissolution,
intemperance,
immoderation,
excess,
profligacy,
abandonment,
self-indulgence,
wildness,
depravity,
degeneracy,
corruption,
sinfulness,
immorality,
vice,
impurity,
rakishness,
licentiousness,
promiscuity,
lecherousness,
lechery,
libertinism,
libertinage,
wantonness,
lustfulness,
libidinousness,
lewdness,
drunkenness,
• the squandering of money, energy, or resources.
• "the dissipation of the country's mineral wealth"
Similar:
squandering,
frittering (away),
waste,
misspending,
expenditure,
wild spending,
draining,
depletion,
losing,
loss,
Origin:
late Middle English (in the sense ‘complete disintegration’): from Latin dissipatio(n- ), from the verb dissipare (see dissipate).
