disconnection Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun state of being disconnected
    disjunction; disconnectedness; disjuncture.
  2. noun an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding)
    disconnect; gulf.
    • he felt a gulf between himself and his former friends
    • there is a vast disconnect between public opinion and federal policy
  3. noun the act of breaking a connection
    disjunction.

WordNet


Dis`con*nec"tion noun
Definitions
  1. The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union.
    Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection, and confusion. Burke.

Webster 1913