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separationnoun the act or process of a whole separating into two or more parts or piecesthe separation of Norway and Sweden into two independent nations in 1905 bifurcation, breakup, cleavage, dissolution, disunion, division, fractionalization, fractionation, partition, schism, scission, split, sundering breach, rupturedivorce, severancedecomposition, disassembly, dismemberment, segmentation, subdivisionatomization, dichotomization, polarizationdiffusion, dispersal, dispersion, scatteringadministration, apportionment, distributionisolation, seclusion, segregation, sequestration unification, union assemblage, associationattachment, conjunction, connection, link, linkage, linkupaggregation, combination, consolidation, fusion the state of being kept distinctthe separation of church and state is an important concept in the United States demarcation, discreteness, discrimination, distinction differentiationisolation, segregation blurring, confusion a movement in different directions away from a common pointa sudden separation of the herd of deer when they were startled bifurcation, divarication, divergence, divergency difference, disagreement, discrepancy, disparateness, disparity, dissidence, dissimilarity, distinction, distinctiveness, distinctness, diversity, unlikeness parting of the ways convergence accord, agreementlikeness, similarity an open space in a barrier (as a wall or hedge)the narrow separation between posts in the fence breach, break, discontinuity, gap, gulf, hiatus, hole, interstice, interval, opening, rent, rift, void chink, cleft, crack, cranny, crevice, fissurenotch, slit, slot, splitinterspace, poreabyss, aperture, cavity, chasm, gape, orificefracture, rupture, severance, sundering the act or process of two or more persons going off in different directionsfriends who dreaded the inevitable separation after graduation farewell, leave-taking, parting departure, egress, exit, exiting, exodus, going, leaving, quitting, running awaydecamping, decampment, flight, withdrawalabandonment, desertion, forsaking reunionarrival, greeting, salutation, welcomegathering, joining, meeting something that divides, separates, or marks offa filing cabinet with lots of adjustable separations divider, division, partition, separator barrier, fence, wallborder, boundary, limit in the 14th century |