dissipation

Other forms of dissipation

plural

dissipations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about dissipation

What does dissipation mean?

dissipation means "breaking up and scattering by dispersion". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in dissipation?

dissipation has 4 syllables: dis-si-pa-tion. The stress falls on "pa". In IPA it is /ˌdɪsɪˈpeɪʃən/.

What is another word for dissipation?

Close synonyms include profligacy, dissolution, licentiousness, looseness, waste. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dissipation a common word?

dissipation is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with dissipation?

8 words rhyme with dissipation. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.