| NOUN | event | dissipation | breaking up and scattering by dispersion |
|---|---|---|---|
| act | dissipation, profligacy, dissolution, licentiousness, looseness | dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure | |
| act | dissipation, waste, wastefulness | useless or profitless activity |
| Sounds | dih.sihpey'shahn | |
|---|---|---|
| Rhymes | Aachen ... Zukerman: 2572 rhymes with ahn... | |
| Meaning | Breaking up and scattering by dispersion. | |
|---|---|---|
| Example | "the dissipation of the mist" | |
| Broader | dispersion, scattering | Spreading widely or driving off |
| Spanish | disipación | |
| Verbs | dissipate | move away from each other |
| dissipate | to cause to separate and go in different directions | |
| Meaning | dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure. | |
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| Synonyms | profligacy, dissolution, licentiousness, looseness | |
| Broader | intemperance, intemperateness, self-indulgence | excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence |
| Spanish | disolución, libertinaje, soltura | |
| Catalan | dissolució, llibertinatge | |
| Verbs | dissipate | live a life of pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption |
| Meaning | useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly. | |
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| Example | "mindless dissipation of natural resources" | |
| Synonyms | waste, wastefulness | |
| Narrower | boondoggle | Work of little or no value done merely to look busy |
| extravagance, prodigality, lavishness, highlife, high life | excessive spending / spending | |
| squandering | spending resources lavishly and wastefully | |
| waste of effort, waste of energy | A useless effort | |
| waste of material | A useless consumption of material | |
| waste of money | money spent for inadequate return | |
| waste of time | The devotion of time to a useless activity | |
| Broader | activity | Any specific behavior |
| Spanish | derroche, despilfarro, dilapidación, disipación | |
| Catalan | balafiament, dissipació, malbaratament | |
| Verbs | dissipate | spend frivolously and unwisely |
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