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Noun Separation has 9 senses

• separation(n = noun.state) Array - the state of lacking unity; Array
is a kind of state
has particulars: discreteness, distinctness, separateness, severalty, isolation, discontinuity, disconnectedness, disconnection, disjunction, disjuncture, disassociation
Antonym: union

• separation(n = noun.event) breakup, detachment - coming apart; Array
is a kind of alteration, change, modification
has particulars: breach, break, falling out, rift, rupture, severance, break
Derived form verb separate₁₂

• separation(n = noun.attribute) interval - the distance between things; "fragile items require separation and cushioning"
is a kind of distance
has particulars: clearance

• separation(n = noun.act) Array - sorting one thing from others; "the separation of wheat from chaff"; "the separation of mail by postal zones"
has particulars: threshing, sifting, winnow, winnowing
is a kind of sorting
Derived form verb separate₅

• separation(n = noun.act) Array - the social act of separating or parting company; "the separation of church and state"
is a kind of group action
has particulars: divorce, divorcement, seclusion, closing off, isolation, segregation, sequestration, separationism, separatism
Derived form verb separate₉

• separation(n = noun.location) Array - the space where a division or parting occurs; "he hid in the separation between walls"
is a kind of space

• separation(n = noun.event) Array - the termination of employment (by resignation or dismissal); Array
is a kind of final result, outcome, result, resultant, termination

• separation(n = noun.act) legal separation - (law) the cessation of cohabitation of man and wife (either by mutual agreement or under a court order); Array
is a kind of cessation, surcease
Derived form verb separate₈

• separation(n = noun.act) Array - the act of dividing or disconnecting; Array
is a kind of change of integrity
has particulars: avulsion, dissociation, secession, withdrawal, disunion, disconnection, disjunction, division, detachment, disengagement, tear, remotion, removal, division, partition, partitioning, sectionalisation, sectionalization, segmentation, divergence, divergency, withdrawal, secession
Derived form verb separate₂

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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

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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.

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