dis‧junc‧tion/dɪsˈdʒʌŋkʃən/ , dis‧junc‧ture /dɪsˈdʒʌŋktʃə $ -ər/ noun[COUNTABLE USUALLY SINGULAR] formal a difference between two things that you would expect to be in agreement: ▪ a disjunction between the skills taught in schools and the skills demanded by employers
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Anticipated here is that always unstable disjunction between identification and desire upon which male bonding depends. ▪ In a turbulent environment, diversity, contradiction and disjunction are the norm. ▪ In fact, the disjunction between promise and reality is frequent and extensive in many political systems. ▪ It is this disjunction which is the historic crisis of Western society. ▪ It is worth going through the list to see how great the disjunction is. ▪ There is certainly a disjunction in our lives between the pace we force upon ourselves and the pace that nature affords us. ▪ Tragicomedy gives the disjunction of the subjective and objective visions of the human situation dramatic form. ▪ Yet there is a very big disjunction here.