dissipation
Energy fading away
Dissipation is the process of scattering or dispersing until something fades away.
Heat dissipates into the atmosphere; fog dissipates as the sun rises.
The word also describes wasteful or excessive indulgence in pleasure—drinking, gambling, carousing: Years of dissipation had ruined his health.
A life of dissipation suggests moral decay through self-indulgence.
Excessive consumption or enjoyment
- debaucheryExtreme indulgence in vices
- intemperanceHabitual lack of restraint
- profligacyReckless, wasteful extravagance
- hedonismPursuit of gratification
squandering · extravagance · prodigality · immoderation · recklessness · overconsumption · gluttony · carousing
Bad habit or deputy
- sinViolation of divine law
- corruptionDishonest abuse of power
- immoralityQuality of being wicked
- degeneracyMoral or physical decline
licentiousness · turpitude · depravity · iniquity · wickedness · moral decay · profligacy · dissolution
Reckless depletion of resources
- depletionReduction of supply
- fritteringWasting gradually, carelessly
- misuseImproper application
- exhaustionState of utter depletion
loss · wastefulness · spendthrift · draining · consumption · hemorrhaging · running through · using up
Quantified chaos in systems
- heat lossWarmth leaving a system
- energy lossPower that escapes unused
- heat transferMovement of thermal energy
- coolingLosing thermal energy
radiation · conduction · convection · thermal equilibrium · heat sink
Process of declining quality
- degradationDecline in condition
- erosionGradual wearing away
- atrophyWasting from disuse
- declineDecrease or refuse
disintegration · wasting · withering · crumbling · fading · ebbing · weakening · diminishment
Distribution in many directions
- diffusionPassive molecular spreading
- dispersionScattering across space
- spreadingExtending over space
- thinningReducing density or number
evaporation · vanishing · fading · dissolving · dilution · attenuation · disseminating · melting away
overindulgence
Excessive consumption or enjoyment
- debaucheryExtreme indulgence in vices
- intemperanceHabitual lack of restraint
- profligacyReckless, wasteful extravagance
hedonism · squandering · extravagance · prodigality · immoderation · recklessness · overconsumption · gluttony · carousing · dissolution
vice
Bad habit or deputy
- sinViolation of divine law
- corruptionDishonest abuse of power
- immoralityQuality of being wicked
degeneracy · licentiousness · turpitude · depravity · iniquity · wickedness · moral decay · profligacy · dissolution
squandering
Reckless depletion of resources
- depletionReduction of supply
- fritteringWasting gradually, carelessly
- misuseImproper application
exhaustion · loss · wastefulness · spendthrift · draining · consumption · hemorrhaging · running through · using up · misspending
entropy
Quantified chaos in systems
- heat lossWarmth leaving a system
- energy lossPower that escapes unused
- heat transferMovement of thermal energy
cooling · radiation · conduction · convection · thermal equilibrium · heat sink
deterioration
Process of declining quality
- degradationDecline in condition
- erosionGradual wearing away
- atrophyWasting from disuse
decline · disintegration · wasting · withering · crumbling · fading · ebbing · weakening · diminishment · dwindling
scattering
Distribution in many directions
- diffusionPassive molecular spreading
- dispersionScattering across space
- spreadingExtending over space
thinning · evaporation · vanishing · fading · dissolving · dilution · attenuation · disseminating · melting away · breaking up
- excessexcess, too much, excessive, excessiveness, overabundance
- indulgenceindulgence, indulge, indulgent, self-indulgent, overindulgence
- wastefulnesswaste, squandering, extravagance, profligacy, overspending
- decadencedecadence, decay, lavishness, aestheticism, dandyism
- entropydisorder, randomness, irreversibility, thermodynamics, microstates
- vicevice, debauchery, prostitution, depravity, immorality
dissipationasceticism
Severe self-denial practice
virtue · self-discipline · temperance · abstinence · sobriety
dissipationaccumulation
Collected mass over time
conservation · preservation · saving · hoarding · thrift
dissipationconcentration
Sustained single-minded attention
consolidation · convergence · accumulation · gathering · aggregation
- heat dissipationTransfer of warmth outward