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dissoluteness

noun

Etymology

From dissolute + -ness.

  1. derived from dissolutus
  2. inherited from dissolute
  3. suffixed as dissoluteness — “dissolute + ness”

Definitions

  1. Lack of restraint

    Lack of restraint; excess.

  2. Looseness of morals

    Looseness of morals; wantonness, licentiousness.

    • Wee dare not call our members by their proper names, and feare not to employ them in all kind of dissolutenese.
    • Though he knew it not, the subtle spirit of vagabondage had taken possession of his soul, and even of his hat, which seemed suddenly to have lost its original respectability, and acquired an air of dissoluteness.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA