disconnection
1. an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding) - he felt a gulf between himself and his former friends - there is a vast disconnect between public opinion and federal policy • Syn: gulf, disconnect • Hypernyms: disparity 2. state of being disconnected • Syn: disjunction, disjuncture, disconnectedness • Ant: connectedness (for: disconnectedness) • Derivationally related forms: disconnected (for: disconnectedness), disjoin (for: disjuncture), disjoin (for: disjunction) • Hypernyms: separation • Hyponyms: separability, incoherence, incoherency 3. the act of breaking a connection • Syn: disjunction • Derivationally related forms: disjoin (for: disjunction), disconnect • Hypernyms: separation
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