falling out

Questions about falling out

What does falling out mean?

falling out means "a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions)".

What is another word for falling out?

Close synonyms include rupture, breach, break, severance, rift. 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 falling out a common word?

falling out is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.