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dissoluteness

dissoluteness noun: lack of restraint; excess.

Noun

dissoluteness (usually uncountable, plural dissolutenesses)

  1. (obsolete, usually) Lack of restraint; excess.
  2. (usually) 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., II.17
    • 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.1913, Norman Lindsay, A Curate in Bohemia, Sydney: N.S.W. Bookstall Co., published 1932, page 76

dissoluteness meaning in Hindi and Tamil

dissoluteness in Hindi

dissoluteness
आवारगी āvārgī

dissoluteness in Tamil

இழுக்கு

Forms of dissoluteness

pluraldissolutenesses

Origin of dissoluteness

From dissolute + -ness.

Questions about dissoluteness

What does dissoluteness mean?
Dissoluteness means lack of restraint; excess.
What is dissoluteness in Hindi?
Dissoluteness in Hindi is आवारगी (āvārgī). See Dissoluteness meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is dissoluteness?
Dissoluteness is a noun.
What is the plural of dissoluteness?
The plural of dissoluteness is dissolutenesses.

Words near dissoluteness in the dictionary

  1. dissolubility
  2. dissoluble
  3. dissolubleness
  4. dissolute
  5. dissolutely
  6. dissoluteness
  7. dissolutenesses
  8. dissolutes
  9. dissolution
  10. dissolutional
  11. dissolutionism

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Adapted from Wiktionary: dissoluteness (page history and authors); आवारगी (Hindi) (page history and authors); dissoluteness (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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