Synonyms: waste, wastefulness, dissipation
Definition: useless or profitless activity; using or expending or consuming thoughtlessly or carelessly
Usage: if the effort brings no compensating gain it is a waste; mindless dissipation of natural resources
Similar words: activity
Definition: any specific behavior
Usage: they avoided all recreational activity
Synonyms: profligacy, looseness, licentiousness, dissipation, dissolution
Definition: dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure
Similar words: intemperance, intemperateness, self-indulgence
Definition: excess in action and immoderate indulgence of bodily appetites, especially in passion or indulgence
Usage: the intemperance of their language
Synonyms: dissipation
Definition: breaking up and scattering by dispersion
Usage: the dissipation of the mist
Similar words: dispersion, scattering
Definition: spreading widely or driving off