Noun
The act of dissipating or dispersing; a state of dispersion or separation; dispersion; waste.
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryThey had both noticed that a life of dissipation sometimes gave to a face the look of gaunt suffering spirituality that a life of asceticism was supposed to give and quite often did not. Katherine Anne Porter
On the approach of spring I withdraw without reluctance from the noisy and extensive scene of crowds without company, and dissipation without pleasure. Edward Gibbon
There is the love of knowing without the love of learning; the beclouding here leads to dissipation of mind. Confucius
Of London Crowds without company, dissipation without pleasure. Edward Gibbon
I have important business to get to. I plan to sulk all afternoon, followed, perhaps, by an evening of Byronic brooding and a nighttime of dissipation. Cassandra Clare
Dissipation is a form of self-sacrifice. Eric Hoffer