Debauchery vs Dissipation - What's the difference?
debauchery | dissipation |
Indulgence in sensual pleasures; scandalous activities involving sex, alcohol, or drugs without inhibition.
(archaic) Seduction from duty.
The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
* Francis Bacon
* Sir M. Hale
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.
* P. Henry
* {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
, title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad
, chapter=4 A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention.
* Jonathan Swift
(physics) A loss of energy, usually as heat, from a dynamic system
As nouns the difference between debauchery and dissipation
is that debauchery is indulgence in sensual pleasures; scandalous activities involving sex, alcohol, or drugs without inhibition while dissipation is the act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.debauchery
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(debaucheries)Synonyms
* licentiousnessReferences
* Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary: Tenth Edition (1997) * WordNet 3.0 (Princeton University) ;dissipation
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(en noun)- without loss or dissipation of the matter
- the famous dissipation of mankind
- to reclaim the spendthrift from his dissipation and extravagance
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- Prevented from finishing them [the letters] a thousand avocations and dissipations .