Separation

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: sep=a=ra=tion

CIDE DICTIONARY

Separation, n. [L. separatio: cf. F. séparation.].

 The act of separating, or the state of being separated, or separate.  [1913 Webster]

Judicial separation (Law), a form of divorce; a separation of man and wife which has the effect of making each a single person for all legal purposes but without ability to contract a new marriage. Mozley & W.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Separation, n.
1 the act or an instance of separating; the state of being separated.
2 (in full judicial separation or legal separation) an arrangement by which a husband and wife remain married but live apart.
3 any of three or more monochrome reproductions of a coloured picture which can combine to reproduce the full colour of the original.

Idiom

separation order an order of court for judicial separation.

Etymology

ME f. OF f. L separatio -onis (as SEPARATE)

THESAURUS

Separation

Jim Crow, aberration, aesthetic distance, alien, alienation, alteration, analysis, analyzation, anatomization, anatomizing, anatomy, annulment, apartheid, apartness, assay, assaying, atomization, barrier, bolting, brattice, breach, breach of friendship, break, breakdown, breaking down, breaking up, breakup, broken home, broken marriage, buffer, buffer state, bulkhead, bumper, centrifugence, change, clarification, clearance, cleavage, cleft, cloison, colature, collision mat, color bar, compass, contradistinction, cordon, cordon sanitaire, cordoning off, cushion, deactivation, decentralization, decree of nullity, deep space, demarcation, demobilization, deployment, depths of space, destructive distillation, desynonymization, detachment, deviation, diaphragm, diaspora, dichotomy, differencing, differentiation, disaffection, disassociation, disbandment, disconnection, discrimination, disequalization, disfavor, disintegration, disjointedness, disjunction, dismemberment, dismissal, disorganization, dispersal, dispersion, disruption, dissection, dissepiment, dissociation, dissolution, dissolution of marriage, distance, distillation, distinction, distinctiveness, distinguishment, disunion, disunity, divarication, divergence, divergency, diversification, dividedness, dividing line, dividing wall, division, divorce, divorcement, docimasy, edulcoration, elution, elutriation, essentialization, estrangement, ethnocentrism, exclusiveness, extent, extraction, falling-out, fanning, fanning out, farness, fender, filtering, filtration, fission, foreigner, fracture, fracturing, fragmentation, grasswidowhood, gravimetric analysis, hairsplitting, individualization, individuation, infinity, insularity, insulation, interlocutory decree, interseptum, isolation, isolationism, keeping apart, know-nothingism, leaching, leeway, length, light-years, lixiviation, margin, mat, microscopic distinction, midriff, midsection, mileage, modification, narrowness, nice distinction, nuance, open rupture, out-group, outcast, outsider, pad, panel, paries, parochialism, parsecs, particularization, parting, partition, party wall, percolation, persona non grata, personalization, perspective, piece, privacy, privatism, privatization, property line, proximate analysis, purification, quantitative analysis, quarantine, quarantine flag, race hatred, racial segregation, range, reach, recall of ambassadors, recess, reclusion, reduction to elements, refinement, release, remoteness, resolution, retirement, retreat, riddling, rift, rupture, rustication, sanitary cordon, schism, scission, screening, seclusion, secrecy, segmentation, segregation, semimicroanalysis, separate maintenance, separateness, separatism, septulum, septum, sequestration, severalization, severance, shade of difference, shattering, shedding, shock pad, sieving, sifting, snobbishness, space, span, specialization, spiritualization, splaying, splendid isolation, split, split-up, splitting, spread, spreading, spreading out, straining, stranger, stretch, stride, subdivision, sublimation, subtle distinction, tightness, trichoschistism, trichotomy, variation, wall, way, ways, winnowing, withdrawal, xenophobia, yellow flag, yellow jack

ROGET THESAURUS

Separation

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.

Exclusion

N exclusion, nonadmission, omission, exception, rejection, repudiation, exile, noninclusion, preclusion, prohibition, separation, segregation, seposition, elimination, expulsion, cofferdam, excluding, exclusive, excluded, unrecounted, not included in, inadmissible, exclusive of, barring, except, with the exception of, save, bating, exclusion, seclusion, exclusion, seclusion, privacy, retirement, reclusion, recess, snugness, delitescence, rustication, rus in urbe, solitude, solitariness, isolation, loneliness, estrangement from the world, voluntary exile, aloofness, cell, hermitage, convent, sanctum sanctorum, depopulation, desertion, desolation, wilderness, howling wilderness, rotten borough, Old Sarum, exclusion, excommunication, banishment, exile, ostracism, proscription, cut, cut direct, dead cut, inhospitality, inhospitableness, dissociability, domesticity, Darby and Joan, recluse, hermit, eremite, cenobite, anchoret, anchorite, Simon Stylites, troglodyte, Timon of Athens, Santon, solitaire, ruralist, disciple of Zimmermann, closet cynic, Diogenes, outcast, Pariah, castaway, pilgarlic, wastrel, foundling, wilding, secluded, sequestered, retired, delitescent, private, bye, out of the world, out of the way, the world forgetting by the world forgot, snug, domestic, stay-at-home, unsociable, unsocial, dissocial, inhospitable, cynical, inconversable, unclubbable, sauvage, troglodytic, solitary, lonely, lonesome, isolated, single, estranged, unfrequented, uninhabitable, uninhabited, tenantless, abandoned, deserted, deserted in one's utmost need, unfriended, kithless, friendless, homeless, lorn, forlorn, desolate, unvisited, unintroduced, uninvited, unwelcome, under a cloud, left to shift for oneself, derelict, outcast, banished, noli me tangere, among them but not of them, and homeless near a thousand homes I stood, far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, makes a solitude and calls it peace, magna civitas magna solitudo, never less alone than when alone, O sacred solitude! divine retreat!.

Interval

N interval, interspace, separation, break, gap, opening, hole, chasm, hiatus, caesura, interruption, interregnum, interstice, lacuna, cleft, mesh, crevice, chink, rime, creek, cranny, crack, chap, slit, fissure, scissure, rift, flaw, breach, rent, gash, cut, leak, dike, ha-ha, gorge, defile, ravine, canon, crevasse, abyss, abysm, gulf, inlet, frith, strait, gully, pass, furrow, abra, barranca, barranco, clove, gulch, notch, yawning gulf, hiatus maxime, hiatus valde deflendus, parenthesis, void, incompleteness, period, interim (time), with an interval, far between, breachy, rimose, rimulose, at intervals, longo intervallo.

Divorce

N divorce, divorcement, separation, judicial separation, separate maintenance, separatio a mensa et thoro, separatio a vinculo matrimonii, trial separation, breakup, annulment, widowhood, viduity, weeds, widow, widower, relict, dowager, divorcee, cuckold, grass widow, grass widower, merry widow.

Divergence

N divergence, divergency, divarication, ramification, forking, radiation, separation, dispersion, deviation, aberration, diverging, divergent, radiant, centrifugal, aberrant.