dissoluteness

1. 1.

   indiscipline with regard to sensuous pleasures

   Synonymsincontinenceself-gratification

   Broaderindiscipline

   Narrowerrakishness

Other forms of dissoluteness

plural

dissolutenesses·

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 dissoluteness

What does dissoluteness mean?

dissoluteness means "indiscipline with regard to sensuous pleasures".

How many syllables are in dissoluteness?

dissoluteness has 5 syllables: dis-so-lu-te-ness. The stress falls on "lu".

What is another word for dissoluteness?

Close synonyms include incontinence, self-gratification. 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 dissoluteness a common word?

dissoluteness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.