Dissipation
[dɪsɪ'peɪʃ(ə)n] or ['dɪsə'peʃən]
Definition
(noun.) breaking up and scattering by dispersion; 'the dissipation of the mist'.
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Definition
(n.) The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
(n.) A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in vicious indulgence, as late hours, riotous living, etc.; dissoluteness.
(n.) A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Dispersion, scattering, vanishing.[2]. Waste, squandering.[3]. Dissoluteness, profligacy, excess.
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Examples
- Application and industry have been familiar to the one; idleness and dissipation to the other. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It was Christmas week: we took to no settled employment, but spent it in a sort of merry domestic dissipation. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- A perfect type of the strongly masculine, unmarred by dissipation, or brutal or degrading passions. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- The thoughtless riot, dissipation, and debauchery of his younger days produced fever and delirium. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- But this freedom, which leads to many curious extravagances of character, is in reality only a state of weakness and dissipation. Plato. The Republic.
- I tried dissipation--never debauchery: that I hated, and hate. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Oh, my worldly friends, pursuing the phantom, Pleasure, through the guilty mazes of Dissipation, how easy it is to be happy, if you will only be good! Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- That he need not plunge into this destructive dissipation for the sake of disgusting me, and causing me to fly. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- My recent dissipation, and strange remarks, made so soon after his sister's death, were an insult to her memory. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- He never wasted a moment of time, or lavished a farthing of money in folly or dissipation. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- But it is surely much easier to change the direction of industry from one sort of labour to another, than to turn idleness and dissipation to any. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Mr. Creamer, her medical man, would not hear of her returning to her old haunts and dissipation in London. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- It is the call of nature, which requires to be relieved by some indulgence, sometimes of ease only, but sometimes too of dissipation and diversion. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- She mortally hated work, and loved what she called pleasurebeing an insipid, heartless, brainless dissipation of time. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Her mind seemed wholly taken up with reminiscences of past gaiety, and aspirations after dissipations to come. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
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