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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