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Energy, focus, or a fortune — quietly leaking out until nothing useful remains.
means The gradual scattering or wasteful loss of something, whether physical energy, attention, or a life given to overindulgence.
from From Latin dissipare, to scatter or fling apart — dis (apart) plus supare (to throw).
Physics meaningUseful energy degrading irreversibly into useless heat.
Moral meaningA life squandered on pleasure, per Victorian disapproval.
Entropy's cousinWhy no engine ever returns every joule.