DISSOLUTENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does dissoluteness mean? 

• DISSOLUTENESS (noun)
  The noun DISSOLUTENESS has 1 sense:

1. indiscipline with regard to sensuous pleasures

  Familiarity information: DISSOLUTENESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISSOLUTENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Indiscipline with regard to sensuous pleasures

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

dissoluteness; incontinence; self-gratification

Hypernyms ("dissoluteness" is a kind of...):

indiscipline; undiscipline (the trait of lacking discipline)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "dissoluteness"):

rakishness (the quality of a rake)

Derivation:

dissolute (unrestrained by convention or morality)