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separation - 20 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | separation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | being apart; break-up |
| Synonyms: | break, departure, detachment, disconnection, dissociation, dissolution, division, divorce, estrangement, farewell, gap, parting, partition, rift, rupture, segregation, split, dedomiciling, dialysis, disengagement, disjunction, disrelation, disunion, divorcement, embarkation, leave-taking*, parting of the ways, pffft, severance, split-up |
| Antonyms: | togetherness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | alienation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unfriendliness |
| Synonyms: | breach, coolness, disaffection, division, divorce, estrangement, indifference, rupture, separation, variance, withdrawal, breaking off, diverting, remoteness, setting against, turning away |
| Antonyms: | charm, endearment, friendliness |
| Main Entry: | apartheid |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | racial segregation |
| Synonyms: | discrimination, racism, separation |
| Main Entry: | breakup |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | end of relationship |
| Synonyms: | breakdown, breaking, disintegration, dissolution, divorce, ending, parting, rift, separation, split, termination, crackup*, dispersal, splitsville, splitting, wind-up |
| Antonyms: | reconciliation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | cleavage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gap |
| Synonyms: | break, chasm, cleft, divide, division, fracture, hole, rift, schism, separation, split, valley, discontinuity, severance |
| Main Entry: | comparison |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | contrasting; corresponding |
| Synonyms: | allegory, analogy, association, collation, connection, contrast, correlation, discrimination, distinguishing, estimation, example, identification, illustration, juxtaposition, likeness, measuring, metaphor, observation, opposition, ratio, relation, resemblance, segregation, separation, similarity, testing, weighing, analogizing, analyzing, balancing, bringing together, collating, comparability, dividing, exemplification, likening, paralleling, relating |
| Main Entry: | defection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | abandonment |
| Synonyms: | alienation, deficiency, dereliction, desertion, disaffection, disloyalty, divorce, estrangement, failing, failure, faithlessness, lack, parting, rebellion, rejection, repudiation, retreat, revolt, separation, withdrawal, apostasy, backsliding, disownment, forsaking, recreancy, severance, sundering, tergiversation |
| Antonyms: | joining |
| Main Entry: | demarcation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | boundary, division |
| Synonyms: | bound, confine, distinction, enclosure, limit, margin, separation, split, delimitation, differentiation, terminus |
| Main Entry: | dichotomy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | division |
| Synonyms: | difference, difference of opinion, disagreement, separation, split, disunion |
| Main Entry: | discontinuance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stop, suspension of activity |
| Synonyms: | adjournment, alternation, cease, cessation, close, desuetude, disruption, ending, finish, intermission, interruption, separation, stopping, termination, closing, desistance, discontinuation, disjunction |
| Antonyms: | continuation, restarting, retry |
| Main Entry: | dissimilarity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unlikeness |
| Synonyms: | contrast, difference, discord, discrepancy, disparity, distance, distinction, divergence, diversity, incongruity, inconsistency, offset, separation, variance, variation, alterity, discordance, dissemblance, dissimilitude, divarication, divergency, heterogeneity, incomparability, inconsonance, nonuniformity, otherness, severance, unrelatedness |
| Antonyms: | compatibility, equality, likeness, sameness, similarity, relatedness |
| Main Entry: | divergence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | branching out; difference |
| Synonyms: | aberration, alteration, crotch, departure, detour, deviation, digression, disagreeing, discrepancy, disparity, dissimilarity, distinction, diversity, division, fork, mutation, parting, radiation, ramification, separation, variety, varying, alterity, deflection, dissemblance, dissimilitude, divagation, divergency, otherness, turning, unlikeness |
| Antonyms: | accord, agreement, concord, convergence, harmony, sameness |
| Main Entry: | divorce |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | split-up of marriage |
| Synonyms: | annulment, breach, break, breakup, detachment, dissociation, dissolution, division, partition, rupture, separation, split, decree nisi, dedomiciling, disparateness, disunion, divorcement, on the rocks, parting of the ways, separate maintenance, severance, splitsville |
| Antonyms: | marriage |
| Main Entry: | estrangement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | destruction of affections |
| Synonyms: | alienation, breach, disaffection, division, divorce, hostility, leave, parting, removal, schism, separation, split, withdrawal, withholding, antagonization, break-up, disassociation, disunity, leaving |
| Antonyms: | connection, marriage, union |
| Main Entry: | exclusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | expulsion; forbiddance |
| Synonyms: | ban, bar, blackball*, blockade, boycott, cut, discharge, dismissal, ejection, elimination, embargo, eviction, exception, excommunication, interdict, occlusion, omission, ostracism, prevention, prohibition, refusal, rejection, removal, repudiation, segregation, separation, suspension, veto, coventry, debarment, debarring, interdicting, interdiction, keeping out, lockout, nonadmission, ousting, preclusion, proscription, relegation |
| Antonyms: | acceptance, addition, admittance, allowance, inclusion, incorporation, welcome |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | gap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | break, breach |
| Synonyms: | aperture, arroyo, blank, caesura, canyon, chasm, cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, cut, defile, difference, disagreement, disparity, divergence, divide, division, fracture, gorge, gulch, gully, hiatus, hole, hollow, inconsistency, interlude, intermission, interruption, interstice, interval, lacuna, lull, notch, opening, orifice, pause, ravine, recess, rent, respite, rest, rift, rupture, separation, slit, slot, space, vacuity, void, clove, discontinuity, interspace |
| Antonyms: | closure |
| Main Entry: | independence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | liberty, freedom |
| Synonyms: | ability, aptitude, autonomy, home rule, license, qualification, self-sufficiency, separation, sovereignty, autarchy, self-determination, self-government, self-reliance, self-rule |
| Antonyms: | subordination, dependence |
| Main Entry: | interruption |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | break; interference |
| Synonyms: | abeyance, arrest, breach, cessation, check, delay, disconnection, discontinuance, disruption, dissolution, disturbance, division, doldrums, gap, halt, hiatus, hindrance, hitch, impediment, interim, intermission, interval, intrusion, lacuna, layoff, letup*, obstacle, obstruction, pause, quiescence, rift, rupture, separation, split, stop, stoppage, suspension, abeyancy, blackout, break-off, cutoff, disuniting, dormancy, latency, parenthesis, severance |
| Antonyms: | continuation |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | partition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | divider, division |
| Synonyms: | allotment, apportionment, barrier, detachment, disconnection, dissolution, distribution, hindrance, obstruction, parting, portion, rupture, screen, segregation, separation, share, wall, disunion, dividing, rationing, severance, splitting |
| Antonyms: | attachment, juncture, union, unity |
| Main Entry: | privacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | solitude, secrecy |
| Synonyms: | aloofness, clandestineness, concealment, confidentiality, isolation, one's space, penetralia, privateness, quiet, retirement, retreat, seclusion, separateness, separation, sequestration, solitude |
| Antonyms: | publicity, publicness, sociableness |
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