Antonyms for dissipation
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : dis-uh-pey-shuh n |
| Phonetic Transcription : ˌdɪs əˈpeɪ ʃən |
Definition of dissipation
Origin :- early 15c., "act of scattering," from Latin dissipationem (nominative dissipatio), noun of action from past participle stem of dissipare (see dissipate). Meaning "intemperate mode of living" is from 1784.
- noun amusement, entertainment, occasionally to excess
- noun wantonness
- noun disappearance
- To do him justice, his dissipation of the past few months had not included women.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- The gifts of nature had been the instruments of dissipation.
- Extract from : « Female Scripture Biographies, Vol. II » by Francis Augustus Cox
- Still he pursued his plan, and sought for safety in a course of dissipation.
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 9 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- No taint of vice or dissipation had ever sullied the brightness of his pleasant life.
- Extract from : « Henry Dunbar » by M. E. Braddon
- It was his dissipation; there was something vaguely perilous in the absorption of it.
- Extract from : « The Trimming of Goosie » by James Hopper
- I have a family to support, & I can't afford this kind of dissipation.
- Extract from : « Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete » by Albert Bigelow Paine
- Not Loyd, however; he never kept late hours, nor had habits of dissipation.
- Extract from : « A Rent In A Cloud » by Charles James Lever
- Link Merwell showed signs of both suffering and dissipation.
- Extract from : « Dave Porter At Bear Camp » by Edward Stratemeyer
- Dissipation has never been a satisfactory substitute for happiness.
- Extract from : « Sex=The Unknown Quantity » by Ali Nomad
- Some of the men were still sleeping off their dissipation of the night before.
- Extract from : « A Woman who went to Alaska » by May Kellogg Sullivan
Synonyms for dissipation
- abandonment
- bender
- binge
- blow-out
- bust
- celebration
- circus
- debauchery
- diffusion
- disintegration
- dispersal
- dispersion
- dissemination
- dissoluteness
- dissolution
- distraction
- distribution
- diversion
- divertissement
- drunkenness
- emission
- evil
- excess
- extravagance
- free-living
- gratification
- high-living
- improvidence
- indulgence
- intemperance
- lavishness
- life in the fast lane
- party
- prodigality
- profligacy
- radiation
- recreation
- scattering
- self-gratification
- self-indulgence
- spread
- squandering
- tear
- to hell in handbasket
- toot
- vanishing
- wastage
- waste
- wingding
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