separation

Meanings

Plural: separations

Noun

• the state of lacking unity
• coming apart
• the distance between things
  • "fragile items require separation and cushioning"
• sorting one thing from others
  • "the separation of wheat from chaff"
  • "the separation of mail by postal zones"
• the social act of separating or parting company
  • "the separation of church and state"
• the space where a division or parting occurs
  • "he hid in the separation between walls"
• the termination of employment (by resignation or dismissal)
• (law) the cessation of cohabitation of man and wife (either by mutual agreement or under a court order)
• the act of dividing or disconnecting
• The act of disuniting two or more things, or the condition of being separated.
• The act or condition of two or more people being separated from one another.
• The act or condition of a married couple living in separate homes while remaining legally married.
• The act or condition of a married couple living in separate homes while remaining legally married.
• An agreement legalizing such an arrangement.
• The place at which a division occurs.
• An interval, gap or space that separates things or people.
• An object that separates two spaces.
• Departure from active duty, while not necessarily leaving the service entirely.

Synonyms

barrier, border, boundary, break, breakup, demarcation, departition, detachment, disassociation, disconnection, discontinuity, disengagement, disjunction, disseverance, dissociation, disunion, disunity, division, divorce from bed and board, gap, inconnection, interlapse, interspace, interstice, interstitium, interval, legal separation, opening, parting, rupture, separation, separator, severance, space, split, sunderance

Antonyms

annexation, cleft, combination, disjoint, disjunct, disjunction, disunification, disunion, dysjunction, junction, malunion, misunion, separation, unification, union

Related Words

division, fission, interspace