dissipation

English

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ˌdɪsɪˈpeɪʃən/, X-SAMPA: /%dIs@"peIS@n/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

dissipation (plural dissipations)

1. The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
2. 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.
   • 1913, Robert Barr, chapter 4, Lord Stranleigh Abroad^[1]:

     “… 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, …”

3. A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention.
4. (physics) A loss of energy, usually as heat, from a dynamic system

Translations

act or state of dispersing

• Romanian: disipare (ro) f, dispersie (ro) f, disipație (ro) f

dissolute way of life

• Romanian: dezmăț (ro) n, desfrâu (ro) n

• Scottish Gaelic: ana-caitheamh (gd) m

trifle which wastes or distracts

loss of energy

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• Bulgarian: разсейване, разпръскване
• Serbo-Croatian: disipacija (sh) f
• Greek: διάχυση, διασπορά
• German: Zerstreuung (de)
• Japanese: 散逸

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French

Etymology

From dissiper +‎ -tion

Noun

dissipation f (plural dissipations)

1. clearing, dissipation, disappearance