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dissipation

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of dissipation

1 a sinking to a state of low moral standards and behavior

  • the wasting of a once promising life in dissipation and drunkenness
Synonyms of dissipation

abjection, corruption, corruptness, debasement, debauchery, decadence, decadency, degeneracy, degenerateness, degeneration, degradation, demoralization, depravity, dissipatedness, dissoluteness, libertinage, libertinism, perversion, pervertedness, rakishness, turpitude
Words Related to dissipation

evil, immorality, sinfulness, villainy, wickedness

filth, gangrene, rot, squalor
Near Antonyms of dissipation

goodness, morality, righteousness, virtue

2 an act or process in which something scatters or is scattered

  • the dissipation of the clouds by the early morning winds
Synonyms of dissipation

disbandment, dispersal, dispersion, scattering
Words Related to dissipation

diffusion, dissemination

breakup, dissolution, disunion, separation, split
Near Antonyms of dissipation

assembly, collection, concentration, gathering

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