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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



... beautiful works of art in the Italian cities strikes the visitor nowadays—so far as present Italy is concerned—as the mere stock-in-trade of an impecunious but thrifty people. It is this spiritual solitude, this conscious disconnection of the great works of architecture and sculpture that deposits a certain weight upon the heart; when we see a great tradition broken we feel something of the pain with which we hear a stifled cry. But ...
— Italian Hours • Henry James

... best—examples of a process very much practised in the Middle Ages and leaving its mark on future fiction—that of expansion and continuation. In the case of Ogier, indeed, this process was carried so far that enquiring students have been known to be sadly disappointed in the almost total disconnection between William Morris's beautiful section of The Earthly Paradise and the original French, as edited by Barrois in the first attempt to collect the chansons seventy or eighty years ago. The great "Orange" subcycle, of which Aliscans is the most famous, extends in many directions, but is ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 - From the Beginning to 1800 • George Saintsbury



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



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