| Main Entry: | defection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abandonment |
Synonyms: |
alienation, apostasy, backsliding, deficiency, dereliction, desertion, disaffection, disloyalty, disownment, divorce, estrangement, failing, failure, faithlessness, forsaking, lack, parting, rebellion, recreancy, rejection, repudiation, retreat, revolt, separation, severance, sundering, tergiversation, withdrawal |
Antonyms: |
joining |
| Main Entry: | absenteeism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | state of not being present |
Synonyms: |
absence, defection, desertion, skipping, truancy |
Antonyms: |
attendance, presence |
| Main Entry: | heresy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unorthodox opinion, especially in religious matters |
Synonyms: |
agnosticism, apostasy, atheism, blasphemy, defection, disbelief, dissent, dissidence, divergence, error, fallacy, heterodoxy, iconoclasm, impiety, infidelity, misbelief, nonconformism, nonconformity, paganism, revisionism, schism, sectarianism, secularism, sin |
Antonyms: |
orthodoxy |
| Main Entry: | revolt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uprising |
Synonyms: |
defection, displeasure, insurgency, insurrection, mutiny, rebellion, revolution, rising, sedition |
| Notes: | to revolt is to refuse to obey the constraints imposed by another; to rebel is to attempt to replace those constraints by a set of one's own |
Antonyms: |
calm, harmony, peace |
| Main Entry: | secession |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | withdrawal |
Synonyms: |
breakaway, breakup, defection, disaffiliation, dissension, disunion, division, exiting, parting, rift, rupture, schism, separation, splinter group, split |
| Main Entry: | emigration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | migration |
Synonyms: |
colonization, crossing, defection, departure, displacement, exile, exodus, expatriation, homesteading, journey, leaving, march, movement, moving, peregrination, reestablishment, relocation, removal, resettlement, settling, shift, transplanting, travel, trek, uprooting, voyage, wandering |
Antonyms: |
arriving, immigration, remaining |
| Main Entry: | change of heart |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | altered attitude |
Synonyms: |
180, about-face, apostasy, backpedaling, change of mind, defection, flip-flop, reversal, second thoughts, turnaround, volte-face |
| Main Entry: | unfaithfulness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | infidelity |
Synonyms: |
apostasy, bad faith, defection, dereliction, disloyalty, fickleness, improbity, inconstancy, perfidy, recreancy, treachery, treason |
Antonyms: |
faithfulness, loyalty |
| Main Entry: | immigration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | emigration |
Synonyms: |
colonization, crossing, defection, departure, displacement, exile, exodus, expatriation, homesteading, journey, leaving, march, migration, movement, moving, peregrination, reestablishment, relocation, removal, resettlement, settling, shift, transmigration, transplanting, travel, trek, uprooting, voyage, wandering |