dissolution

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Disintegration, or decomposition into fragments.

   The whole fabric dries up, or becomes putrid; and, in both cases, sooner or later, tends to a dissolution.

2. 2
   noun

   The quality of being dissolute.

   He led a life of dissolution, drinking and gambling almost daily.

From Middle English dissolucioun, from Old French dissolucion, from Latin dissolūtiō (“a dissolving, destroying, breaking up, dissolution”).

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