Dissipation vs Desolation - What's the difference?
dissipation | desolation | Related terms |
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
The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation.
The state of being desolated or laid waste; ruin; solitariness]]; destitution; [[gloom, gloominess.
A place or country wasted and forsaken.
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Dissipation is a related term of desolation.
As nouns the difference between dissipation and desolation
is that dissipation is the act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste while desolation is desolation.dissipation
English
Noun
(en noun)- without loss or dissipation of the matter
- the famous dissipation of mankind
- to reclaim the spendthrift from his dissipation and extravagance
citation, passage=“… This is a surprise attack, and I’d no wish that the garrison, forewarned, should escape. I am sure, Lord Stranleigh, that he has been descanting on the distraction of the woods and the camp, or perhaps the metropolitan dissipation of Philadelphia, …”}}
- Prevented from finishing them [the letters] a thousand avocations and dissipations .
