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dissolution noun [ dɪsəˈluːʃ(ə)n ]

• the action of formally ending or dismissing an assembly, partnership, or official body.
• "the dissolution of their marriage"
Similar: cessation, conclusion, end, ending, finish, termination, break-up, split-up, winding up/down, discontinuation, suspension, disbandment, disbanding, disestablishment, disunion, separation, dispersal, scattering, prorogation, recess,
• debauched living; dissipation.
• "an advanced state of dissolution"
Similar: debauchery, dissipation, decadence, dissoluteness, 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,
Opposite: asceticism, restraint,
Origin: late Middle English: from Latin dissolutio(n- ), from the verb dissolvere (see dissolve).


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