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disruption has 13 distinct synonyms spread across 4 of its 4 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
an act of delaying or interrupting the continuity
“it was presented without commercial breaks”
a disorderly outburst or tumult
“they were amazed by the furious disturbance they had caused”
an event that results in a displacement or discontinuity
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for disruption come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.