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Disconnection   /dˌɪskənˈɛkʃən/   Listen
Disconnection

noun
1.
State of being disconnected.  Synonyms: disconnectedness, disjunction, disjuncture.
2.
An unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding).  Synonyms: disconnect, gulf.  "There is a vast disconnect between public opinion and federal policy"
3.
The act of breaking a connection.  Synonym: disjunction.






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"Disconnection" Quotes from Famous Books



... not to the conception of the Divine personality and separateness that we are to look for the missing bond by which the head and members are to be knit together, and the essential disconnection of these "spheres of experience" overcome. The ultimate unity is a mystery; in a word, philosophy, as a quest of that unity, breaks down. The solution is suggested only by the revelation of a superpersonal ...
— The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) • George Tyrrell

... things worth noting about the government of the Burmese were its exceeding badness, and its disconnection with religion. That it would have been a much stronger government had it been able to enlist on its side all the power of the monkhood, none can doubt. It might even have been a better government; of that I am not sure. But that such a union would ...
— The Soul of a People • H. Fielding



Words linked to "Disconnection" :   disparity, separability, separation, connectedness, incoherency, incoherence



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