disconnection

Cut off state

Disconnection is the state of being separated or cut off from something.

A phone line or utility service undergoes disconnection when terminated.

The word often describes emotional or social severance: a growing disconnection between politicians and voters, She felt a disconnection from her old friends.

In technical contexts, it refers to breaking a link or circuit.

relational

rift

Crack or estrangement

breakup · divorce · schism · rupture · split · falling-out · parting · severance · dissolution · disunion

emotional

detachment

Separation or emotional uninvolvement

withdrawal · alienation · estrangement · indifference · disengagement · aloofness · remoteness · emptiness · isolation · depersonalization

social

isolation

Complete separation from others

exclusion · ostracism · abandonment · anomie · marginalization · outcast · segregation · rejection · solitude · withdrawal

physical

severance

Termination pay or disconnection

disengagement · uncoupling · unlinking · unmooring · untethering · dislocation · removal · extraction · disjoining · disentanglement

technical

outage

Loss of electrical service

malfunction · breakdown · disruption · cut-off · blackout · dropout · downtime · short-circuit · fault · offline

freedom

liberation

Release from constraint

autonomy · emancipation · unshackling · unbinding · detaching · untangling · disentangling · uncoupling · distancing · boundaries

Categories
Opposites
physical/technical linkage

disconnectionconnection

A joining or relation

linkage · attachment · hookup · coupling · joining

social/emotional relatedness

disconnectionconnection

A joining or relation

bonding · attachment · intimacy · closeness · belonging

logical/conceptual coherence

disconnectionconnection

A joining or relation

coherence · unification · integration · fusion · synthesis

Family

disconnecting, disconnections

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Negative · Everyday, not technical · Rated G