dissoluteness

English

Etymology

From dissolute +‎ -ness.

Noun

dissoluteness (usually uncountable, plural dissolutenesses)

1. (obsolete) Lack of restraint; excess.
2. Looseness of morals; wantonness, licentiousness.
   • 1603, Michel de Montaigne, translated by John Florio, The Essayes […], London: […] Val[entine] Simmes for Edward Blount […], →OCLC:
     , II.17:

     Wee dare not call our members by their proper names, and feare not to employ them in all kind of dissolutenese.