Word Meanings - DISSIPATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste. Without loss or dissipation of the matter. Bacon. The famous dissipation of mankind. Sir M. Hale. 2. A dissolute course of life, in which

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1. The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste. Without loss or dissipation of the matter. Bacon. The famous dissipation of mankind. Sir M. Hale. 2. 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. To reclaim the spendthrift from his dissipation and extravagance. P. Henry. 3. A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention. Prevented from finishing them a thousand avocations and dissipations. Swift. Dissipation of energy. Same as Degradation of energy, under Degradation.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of DISSIPATION)

• Crapulence
• Surfeit
• headache
• dissipation
• debauchery
• excess
• muddiness

Related words: (words related to DISSIPATION)

• CRAPULENCE
  The sickness occasioned by intemperance; surfeit. Bailey.
• SURFEIT-WATER
  Water for the cure of surfeits. Locke.
• SURFEIT
  arrogance, crime, fr. surfaire, sorfaire, to augment, exaggerate, F. surfaire to overcharge; sur over + faire to make, do, L. facere. See 1. Excess in eating and drinking. Let not Sir Surfeit sit at thy board. Piers Plowman. Now comes the sick
• SURFEITER
  One who surfeits. Shak.
• EXCESS
  out, loss of self-possession, fr. excedere, excessum, to go out, go 1. The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness;
• EXCESSIVE
  Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak. Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly,
• DISSIPATION
  1. The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste. Without loss or dissipation of the matter. Bacon. The famous dissipation of mankind. Sir M. Hale. 2. A dissolute course of life, in which
• DEBAUCHERY
  1. Corruption of fidelity; seduction from virtue, duty, or allegiance. The republic of Paris will endeavor to complete the debauchery of the army. Burke. 2. Excessive indulgence of the appetites; especially, excessive indulgence of lust;
• HEADACHE
  Pain in the head; ceph "Headaches and shivering fits." Macaulay.
• MUDDINESS
  1. The condition or quality of being muddy; turbidness; foulness casued by mud, dirt, or sediment; as, the muddiness of a stream. 2. Obscurity or confusion, as in treatment of a subject; intellectual dullness.