different between dissoluteness vs dissipation

English

Etymology

From dissolute +? -ness.

Noun

dissoluteness (usually uncountable, plural dissolutenesses)

1. (obsolete) Lack of restraint; excess.
2. Looseness of morals; wantonness, licentiousness.
   • , II.17:

     Wee dare not call our members by their proper names, and feare not to employ them in all kind of dissolutenese.

English

Etymology

From Middle French dissipation, from Late Latin dissipatioMorphologically dissipate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d?s??pe???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

dissipation (countable and uncountable, plural dissipations)

1. The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
   • 1677, Matthew Hale, The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature

     the famous dissipation of mankind

2. A dissolute course of life, in which health, money, etc., are squandered in pursuit of pleasure; profuseness in immoral indulgence, as late hours, riotous living, etc.; dissoluteness.
   • 18th century, Patrick Henry in a parliamentary debate

     to reclaim the spendthrift from his dissipation and extravagance

   • 1847, Emily Brontë, Wuthering Heights, chapter VIII:

     He neither wept nor prayed; he cursed and defied: execrated God and man, and gave himself up to reckless dissipation.
3. A trifle which wastes time or distracts attention.
   • 1733 May 28, letter from Alexander Pope to Jonathan Swift:

     Prevented from finishing them [the letters] a thousand avocations and dissipations.

4. (physics) A loss of energy, usually as heat, from a dynamic system.

Translations

French

Etymology

From dissiper +? -tion

Pronunciation

Noun

dissipation f (plural dissipations)

1. clearing, dissipation, disappearance

Further reading

• “dissipation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).