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dissipation

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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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