Dissipation vs Disintegration - What's the difference?
dissipation | disintegration |
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
A process by which anything disintegrates.
The condition of anything which has disintegrated.
(geology) A wearing away or falling to pieces of rocks or strata, produced by atmospheric action, frost, ice, etc.
As nouns the difference between dissipation and disintegration
is that dissipation is the act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste while disintegration is a process by which anything disintegrates.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
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- Prevented from finishing them [the letters] a thousand avocations and dissipations .
