disconnection

1. 1.

   state of being disconnected

   Synonymsdisjunctiondisjuncturedisconnectedness

   Broaderseparation

   Narrowerseparabilityincoherence
2. 2.

   an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding)

   “he felt a gulf between himself and his former friends”

   “there is a vast disconnect between public opinion and federal policy”

   Synonymsgulfdisconnect

   Broaderdisparity
3. 3.

   the act of breaking a connection

   Synonymsdisjunction

   Broaderseparation

Other forms of disconnection

plural

disconnections·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about disconnection

What does disconnection mean?

disconnection means "state of being disconnected". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in disconnection?

disconnection has 4 syllables: dis-con-nec-tion. The stress falls on "nec". In IPA it is /ˌdɪskəˈnɛkʃən/.

What is another word for disconnection?

Close synonyms include disjunction, disjuncture, disconnectedness, gulf, disconnect. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is disconnection a common word?

disconnection is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with disconnection?

3 words rhyme with disconnection. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.