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Definition of Dissipation

Dissipation The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste. 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. A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention. Related Definitions: Act, Are, As, Attention, Course, Dispersing, Dispersion, Dissipating, Dissolute, Dissoluteness, Health, Hours, In, Indulgence, Late, Life, Living, Money, Of, Or, Pleasure, Profuseness, Pursuit, Riotous, Separation, Squandered, State, The, Time, Trifle, Vicious, Waste, Which

Dissipation Quotations Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice. Eric Hoffer The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter. Herbert Spencer But there are other things than dissipation that thicken the features. Tears, for example. Rebecca West They had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not. Katherine Anne Porter I believe in work, hard work, and long hours of work. Men do not breakdown from overwork, but from worry and dissipation. Charles Evans Hughes

Dissipation Translations dissipation in Dutch is uitspatting dissipation in French is expulsion, dissipation dissipation in German is Verschwendung, Verschleuderung, Vertreibung

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