going away

1. 1.

   the act of departing

   Synonymsdeparturegoingleaving

   Broaderact

   Narrowerbreaking awayfarewellFrench leavedisappearancewithdrawalsailingboardingexitdispatchtakeoff

Questions about going away

What does going away mean?

going away means "the act of departing".

What is another word for going away?

Close synonyms include departure, going, leaving. 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 going away a common word?

going away 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.