DISSIPATION

n. 1 squandering, waste, wastefulness, profligacy, abandon, abandonment, self-indulgence, self-gratification, overindulgence, intemperance, hedonism, fast or high living, dolce vita, voluptuousness, sensualism, sybaritism, dissoluteness, dissolution, excess(es), wantonness, debauchery, carousing, prodigality, recklessness, extravagance, rakishness Owing to my dissipation, I had become an alcoholic vagrant 2 disappearance, dispersion, dispersal, diffusion, scattering, vanishing The dissipation of the tear-gas was rapid in the strong breeze 3 distraction, amusement, diversion, entertainment Reading, once a dissipation, had become an obsession