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Profuseness vs Dissipation - What's the difference?

profuseness | dissipation |

As nouns the difference between profuseness and dissipation

is that profuseness is the quality of being profuse; profusion while dissipation is the act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.

profuseness

English

Noun

(-)
  • The quality of being profuse; profusion

    • dissipation

    English

    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
  • * {{quote-book, year=1913, author=
    • , title=Lord Stranleigh Abroad , chapter=4 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, …”}}
  • 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