- severance
- n1. sunderance, chopping or cutting off, slicing or shearing off, bobbing, docking, lopping off, detachment, Both Bot. abstriction, abjunction; cleavage, cleaving, splitting, fissure, scission; division, halving, bisection, bifidity, bifurcation, Obs. dimidia-tion, Bot. mitosis; separation, dissection, dismemberment, divulsion; partition, partitionment, segmentation, dichotomy.2. breach, breaking up, break, split, schism, divorce, disunion, disassociation, disjuncture, Inf. split in the ranks; divergence, divarication, alienation, estrangement, Inf. parting of the ways; dissolution, abscission, breaking off, suspension, discontinuance, termination, stoppage, ending, cease; disengagement, pulling out, leaving, quitting
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.