1. the quality or state of being dissipated; excessive indulgence in pleasure, especially drinking or other self-destructive behaviors
Usage: formal; often used to describe a pattern of wasteful or dissolute living
2. the quality of being scattered, dispersed, or lacking focus or concentration
Usage: less common than the first sense

Examples

• His dissipatedness in his youth eventually caught up with him in middle age.
• The dissipatedness of the wealthy heir shocked his conservative family.
• Years of dissipatedness left him with few real friends and little to show for his inheritance.
• She struggled to overcome the dissipatedness that had defined her college years.
• The dissipatedness of his attention made it impossible for him to complete any serious project.
• His dissipatedness—both in spending and in focus—became a source of constant family conflict.