dissoluteness
English
Etymology
From dissolute + -ness.
Noun
dissoluteness (usually uncountable, plural dissolutenesses)
- (obsolete) Lack of restraint; excess.
- Looseness of morals; wantonness, licentiousness.
- 1603, John Florio, transl.; Michel de Montaigne, The Essayes, […], printed at London: By Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], OCLC 946730821:, II.17:
- Wee dare not call our members by their proper names, and feare not to employ them in all kind of dissolutenese.
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