Synonyms:
waste, wastefulness, dissipation
Meaning: useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly; "if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste"; "mindless dissipation of natural resources"
Synonyms:
dissipation
Meaning: breaking up and scattering by dispersion; "the dissipation of the mist"
Usage examples
He was precocious in dissipation.
Well, it had been that, and Spencer's den of dissipation too!
His keen face, despite lines of wild living and dissipation, was the face of a thinker.
With the dissipation of the fog rain had set in; its splashing upon the muddy pavement was audible.
After years of skulking retirement and dissipation, death had relieved him of his troubles at last, and his funeral followed close upon that of Mr. Hawkins.
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation: it has been my study to guard her against their delusions, by preparing her to expect-and to despise them.
The cold and clammy touch of dissipation is not writing letters of burning condemnation proceedings on my brow. Excesses in any form are utterly unknown to me, and from one end of the Subway to the other you won't find another man of my age who in general takes better care of himself.