| Main Entry: | severance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | division |
Synonyms: |
analysis, apportionment, autopsy, bisection, breaking, breaking down, breaking up, carving, contrasting, cutting up, demarcation, departmentalizing, detaching, detachment, diagnosis, disjunction, disjuncture, dismemberment, disparting, disseverance, disseverment, dissolution, distinguishing, distribution, disunion, disuniting, dividing, divorce, divorcement, parceling, parting, partition, reduction, rending, rupture, segmentation, selection, separating, separation, split, splitting up, subdivision, vivisection |
| Main Entry: | breach |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | change from friendly to unfriendly relationship |
Synonyms: |
alienation, break, difference, disaffection, disagreement, discord, disharmony, dissension, disunity, division, estrangement, falling-out, fissure, fracture, parting of the ways, quarrel, rent, rift, rupture, schism, secession, separation, severance, split, strife, variance, withdrawal |
| Notes: | breach is an infraction, gap, or break; breech is the rear or lower portion of things |
| Main Entry: | cleavage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | gap |
Synonyms: |
break, chasm, cleft, discontinuity, divide, division, fracture, hole, rift, schism, separation, severance, split, valley |
| 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: | dissimilarity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unlikeness |
Synonyms: |
alterity, contrast, difference, discord, discordance, discrepancy, disparity, dissemblance, dissimilitude, distance, distinction, divarication, divergence, divergency, diversity, heterogeneity, incomparability, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, nonuniformity, offset, otherness, separation, severance, unrelatedness, variance, variation |
Antonyms: |
compatibility, equality, likeness, relatedness, sameness, similarity |
| Main Entry: | dissociation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | detachment, separation |
Synonyms: |
break, disconnection, disengagement, disjunction, distancing, disunion, division, divorce, isolation, segregation, severance |
Antonyms: |
association, attachment, connection, union |
| Main Entry: | division |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | separation, disconnection |
Synonyms: |
analysis, apportionment, autopsy, bisection, breaking, breaking down, breaking up, carving, contrasting, cutting up, demarcation, departmentalizing, detaching, detachment, diagnosis, disjuncture, dismemberment, disparting, disseverance, dissolution, distinguishing, distribution, disunion, disuniting, dividing, divorce, parceling, parting, partition, reduction, rending, rupture, segmentation, selection, separating, severance, splitting up, subdivision, vivisection |
Antonyms: |
accord, agreement, connection, unification, unison, unity |
| Main Entry: | divorce |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | split-up of marriage |
Synonyms: |
annulment, breach, break, breakup, decree nisi, dedomiciling, detachment, disparateness, dissociation, dissolution, disunion, division, divorcement, on the rocks, parting of the ways, partition, rupture, separate maintenance, separation, severance, split, splitsville |
Antonyms: |
marriage |
| Main Entry: | fission |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | splitting |
Synonyms: |
atom smashing, atomic reaction, dividing, division, nuclear fission, parting, severance, splitting the atom, thermonuclear reaction |
| Main Entry: | fracture |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | break, rupture |
Synonyms: |
breach, cleavage, cleft, crack, discontinuity, disjunction, displacement, fissure, fragmentation, gap, mutilation, opening, rent, rift, schism, severance, splinter, split, wound |