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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun severance has 2 senses
- severance(n = noun.event) breach, break, falling out, rift, rupture - a personal or social separation (as between opposing factions); "they hoped to avoid a break in relations" has particulars: schism
- severance(n = noun.act) severing - the act of severing; Array is a kind of cut, cutting
is a kind of breakup, detachment, separation
Derived form verb sever1
Derived form verb sever2
CIDE DICTIONARY
severance, n.
- The act of severing, or the state of being severed; partition; separation. Milman. [1913 Webster]
- The act of dividing; the singling or severing of two or more that join, or are joined, in one writ; the putting in several or separate pleas or answers by two or more disjointly; the destruction of the unity of interest in a joint estate. Bouvier. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
severance, n.
1 the act or an instance of severing.
2 a severed state.
1 the act or an instance of severing.
2 a severed state.
Idiom
severance pay an amount paid to an employee on the early termination of a contract.
THESAURUS
severance
abscission, alteration, amputation, analysis, anatomization, atomization, butchering, change, chopping, clearance, cleavage, cutting, demarcation, deportation, desynonymization, detachment, dichotomy, differencing, differentiation, discard, discrimination, disequalization, disjunction, disposal, disposition, distinction, distinguishment, diversification, division, ejection, elimination, enucleation, eradication, excision, exile, expatriation, expulsion, fission, individualization, individuation, laceration, liquidation, modification, mutilation, ostracism, outlawing, outlawry, particularization, personalization, purge, removal, rending, resection, riddance, ripping, scission, section, segregation, separation, severalization, slashing, slicing, specialization, splitting, surgery, suspension, tearing, variation, withdrawalROGET THESAURUS
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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.
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