Noun

(en noun)

The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.

* Francis Bacon

without loss or dissipation of the matter

* Sir M. Hale

the famous dissipation of mankind

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

to reclaim the spendthrift from his dissipation and extravagance

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A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention.

* Jonathan Swift

Prevented from finishing them [the letters] a thousand avocations and dissipations .

(physics) A loss of energy, usually as heat, from a dynamic system

Noun

(en-noun)

The property of being licentious.

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, year= 1648 , year_published= , author= , by= , title= Miscellanea Spiritualia , url= http://ia700305.us.archive.org/3/items/miscellaneaspiri00mont/miscellaneaspiri00mont_bw.pdf , original= , chapter= Of Scurrility , section = 2 , isbn= , edition= , publisher= W. Lee, D. Pakeman, and G. Bedell , location= London , editor= , volume= , page= 144 , passage= ... and well considered, me thinks this is one of the most censurable parts of this licentiousnesse , in regard it laboureth to taint the whole body of conversation, as it corrupteth the nature of words, which are the Publique Faith , whereupon all innocent discourse must needs trust it selfe, so that this perversion seemeth a publick impediment to the commerce of all vertuous communication ... }}