'Disintegration' definitions:
Definition of 'disintegration'
(from WordNet)
noun
In a decomposed state [syn: decomposition, disintegration]
noun
A loss (or serious disruption) of organization in some system; "a disintegration of personality"
noun
Separation into component parts [syn: dissolution, disintegration]
noun
The spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation [syn: decay, radioactive decay, disintegration]
noun
Total destruction; "bomb tests resulted in the annihilation of the atoll" [syn: annihilation, disintegration]
Definition of 'Disintegration'
From: GCIDE
- Disintegration \Dis*in`te*gra"tion\, n. (a) The process by which anything is disintegrated; the condition of anything which is disintegrated. Specifically (b) (Geol.) The wearing away or falling to pieces of rocks or strata, produced by atmospheric action, frost, ice, etc. [1913 Webster]
- Society had need of further disintegration before it could begin to reconstruct itself locally. --Motley. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'disintegration'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abrasion,
- amiable weakness,
- atomization,
- attrition,
- beating,
- biodegradability,
- biodegradation,
- bloodbath,
- blue ruin,
- breakability,
- breakup,
- brecciation,
- brittleness,
- carnage,
- changeableness,
- collapse,
- comminution,
- consumption,
- corrosion,
- corruption,
- crack-up,
- crumbling,
- crushing,
- daintiness,
- damnation,
- deactivation,
- decay,
- decimation,
- decomposition,
- degradability,
- degradation,
- delicacy,
- demobilization,
- depredation,
- derangement,
- desolation,
- despoilment,
- despoliation,
- destructibility,
- destruction,
- detachment,
- detrition,
- devastation,
- diaspora,
- diffusion,
- dilapidation,
- disarrangement,
- disarray,
- disarticulation,
- disbandment,
- discomfiture,
- discomposure,
- disconcertedness,
- disharmony,
- dishevelment,
- disjunction,
- dismissal,
- disorder,
- disorderliness,
- disorganization,
- dispersal,
- dispersion,
- disproportion,
- disruption,
- dissolution,
- disturbance,
- effeminacy,
- entropy,
- exfoliation,
- flimsiness,
- fragility,
- fragmentation,
- frailty,
- frangibility,
- granulation,
- granulization,
- grating,
- grinding,
- haphazardness,
- havoc,
- hecatomb,
- holocaust,
- human frailty,
- incoherence,
- indecisiveness,
- indiscriminateness,
- infirmity of will,
- inharmonious harmony,
- inherent vice,
- irregularity,
- irresolution,
- levigation,
- lightness,
- mashing,
- mildew,
- mold,
- moral weakness,
- most admired disorder,
- nonsymmetry,
- nonuniformity,
- oxidation,
- oxidization,
- parting,
- perdition,
- perturbation,
- pounding,
- powdering,
- promiscuity,
- promiscuousness,
- randomness,
- ravage,
- release,
- resolution,
- revolution,
- ruin,
- ruination,
- rust,
- scaling,
- scattering,
- separation,
- shambles,
- shattering,
- shredding,
- slaughter,
- sleaziness,
- slightness,
- smashing,
- split-up,
- spoilage,
- spoliation,
- trituration,
- turbulence,
- undoing,
- unsubstantiality,
- unsymmetry,
- ununiformity,
- upset,
- vandalism,
- velleity,
- waste,
- wispiness,
- womanishness,
- wrack,
- wrack and ruin,
- wreck