SEPARATION
Definition:
- [noun] the act of dividing or disconnecting
- [noun] coming apart
Synonyms: breakup, detachment
- [noun] the state of lacking unity
- [noun] the distance between things; "fragile items require separation and cushioning"
Synonyms: interval
- [noun] sorting one thing from others; "the separation of wheat from chaff"; "the separation of mail by postal zones"
- [noun] the social act of separating or parting company; "the separation of church and state"
- [noun] the space where a division or parting occurs; "he hid in the separation between walls"
- [noun] termination of employment (by resignation or dismissal)
- [noun] (law) the cessation of cohabitation of man and wife (either by mutual agreement or under a court order)
Synonyms: legal
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Related Words:
- avulsion
- dissociation
- secession, withdrawal
- Secession
- disunion
- disconnection, disjunction
- division
- detachment, disengagement
- tear
- removal, remotion
- division, partition, partitioning, segmentation, sectionalization, sectionalisation
- divergence, divergency
- rupture, breach, break, severance, rift, falling out
- break
- discreteness, distinctness, separateness, severalty
- isolation
- discontinuity
- disjunction, disjuncture, disconnection, disconnectedness
- disassociation
- clearance
- threshing
- winnow, winnowing, sifting
- divorce, divorcement
- seclusion
- isolation, closing off
- segregation, sequestration
