dissoluteness

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

From dissolute + -ness.

The cause of his extreme dissoluteness and unseemliness lies, do you see, not in himself, but somewhere outside in space. — The Duel and Other Stories, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov
The reins, meantime, were slackened to me, beyond all temper of due severity, to spend my time in sport, yea, even unto dissoluteness in whatsoever I affected. — The Confessions of St. Augustine, of Hippo, Saint Augustine
He knows that I am not a goddess of purity: but I should have little difficulty in persuading him that you are magnifying a comparatively venial frailty into a monstrous dissoluteness. — The Mysteries of London, v. 4/4, George W. M. (George William MacArthur) Reynolds

incontinence, self-gratification

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