disjunction

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: dis=junc=tion

OXFORD DICTIONARY

disjunction, n.
1 the process of disjoining; separation.
2 an instance of this.

Etymology

ME f. OF disjunction or L disjunctio (as DISJOIN)

THESAURUS

disjunction

ablation, abstraction, accord, addition, adjunct, affairs, affiliation, affinity, alienation, alliance, aloofness, alteration, analysis, anarchy, anatomization, approximation, assemblage, association, atomization, bond, breakup, broken thread, brokenness, change, chaos, clearance, closeness, combination, confusion, connectedness, connection, contiguity, contrariety, corrosion, crumbling, dealings, decay, decomposition, deduction, degradation, demarcation, deportation, derangement, desynonymization, detachment, differencing, differentiation, diffusion, dilapidation, disarrangement, disarray, disarticulation, disassociation, discard, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertedness, disconnectedness, disconnection, discontinuance, discontinuation, discontinuity, discontinuousness, discreteness, discrimination, disengagement, disequalization, disharmony, dishevelment, disintegration, disjointing, disjuncture, dislocation, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, dispersal, dispersion, disposal, disposition, disproportion, disruption, dissociation, dissolution, distinction, distinguishment, disturbance, disunion, diversification, division, divorce, divorcement, ejection, elimination, entropy, episode, eradication, erosion, exile, expatriation, expulsion, filiation, fitfulness, haphazardness, homology, immateriality, impertinence, inapplicability, inappositeness, incoherence, incompleteness, inconnection, inconsequence, inconsistency, independence, indiscriminateness, individualization, individuation, inharmonious harmony, intercourse, intermittence, intimacy, irregularity, irrelation, irrelevance, isolation, junction, liaison, link, linkage, linking, liquidation, luxation, modification, most admired disorder, mutual attraction, nearness, non sequitur, nonadhesion, noncohesion, noncontinuance, nonlinearity, nonseriality, nonsymmetry, nonuniformity, ostracism, outlawing, outlawry, parenthesis, particularization, parting, partition, personalization, perturbation, promiscuity, promiscuousness, propinquity, proximity, purge, randomness, rapport, ravages of time, relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, removal, resolution, riddance, scattering, segmentation, segregation, separateness, separation, separatism, severalization, severance, similarity, specialization, subdivision, subtraction, suspension, sympathy, tie, tie-in, turbulence, unadherence, unadhesiveness, unconnectedness, union, unrelatedness, unsymmetry, untenacity, ununiformity, upset, variation, wear, wear and tear, withdrawal, zoning

ROGET THESAURUS

disjunction

Disjunction

N disjunction, disconnection, disunity, disunion, disassociation, disengagement, discontinuity, abjunction, cataclasm, inconnection, abstraction, abstractedness, isolation, insularity, insulation, oasis, island, separateness, severalty, disjecta membra, dispersion, apportionment, separation, parting, circumcision, detachment, segregation, divorce, sejunction, seposition, diduction, diremption, discerption, elision, caesura, break, fracture, division, subdivision, rupture, compartition, dismemberment, dislocation, luxation, severance, disseverance, scission, rescission, abscission, laceration, dilaceration, disruption, abruption, avulsion, divulsion, section, resection, cleavage, fission, partibility, separability, fissure, breach, rent, split, rift, crack, slit, incision, dissection anatomy, decomposition, cutting instrument, buzzsaw, circular saw, rip saw, separatist, disjoined, discontinuous, multipartite, abstract, disjunctive, secant, isolated, insular, separate, disparate, discrete, apart, asunder, far between, loose, free, unattached, unannexed, unassociated, unconnected, distinct, adrift, straggling, rift, reft, scissile, divisible, discerptible, partible, separable, separately, one by one, severally, apart, adrift, asunder, in twain, in the abstract, abstractedly.

Incoherence

N incoherence, nonadhesion, immiscibility, incoherence, looseness, laxity, relaxation, loosening, freedom, disjunction, rope of sand, nonadhesive, immiscible, incoherent, detached, loose, baggy, slack, lax, relaxed, flapping, streaming, disheveled, segregated, like grains of sand unconsolidated &c, uncombined, noncohesive.

Decomposition

N decomposition, analysis, dissection, resolution, catalysis, dissolution, corruption, dispersion, disjunction, disintegration, decomposed, catalytic, analytical, resolvent, separative, solvent.

Discontinuity

N discontinuity, disjunction, anacoluthon, interruption, break, fracture, flaw, fault, crack, cut, gap, solution of continuity, caesura, broken thread, parenthesis, episode, rhapsody, patchwork, intermission, alternation, dropping fire, discontinuous, unsuccessive, broken, interrupted, dicousu, disconnected, unconnected, discrete, disjunctive, fitful, spasmodic, desultory, intermitting, occasional, intermittent, alternate, recurrent, at intervals, by snatches, by jerks, by skips, by catches, by fits and starts, skippingly, per saltum, longo intervallo, like 'angel visits few and far between'.

Dispersion

N nonassemblage, dispersion, dispersion, disjunction, divergence, aspersion, scattering, dissemination, diffusion, dissipation, distribution, apportionment, spread, respersion, circumfusion, interspersion, spargefaction, affusion, waifs and estrays, flotsam and jetsam, disjecta membra waveson, unassembled &c (assemble), dispersed, sparse, dispread, broadcast, sporadic, widespread, epidemic, adrift, stray, disheveled, streaming, sparsim, here and there, passim.