'Withdrawal' definitions:
Definition of 'withdrawal'
(from WordNet)
noun
A retraction of a previously held position [syn: withdrawal, backdown, climb-down]
noun
The act of taking out money or other capital
noun
The act of withdrawing; "the withdrawal of French troops from Vietnam"
noun
Avoiding emotional involvement [syn: withdrawal, detachment]
noun
The act of withdrawing blood, tumors, etc.; "the nurse was expert at the withdrawal of blood"
noun
The act of ceasing to participate in an activity
noun
A method of birth control in which coitus is initiated but the penis is deliberately withdrawn before ejaculation [syn: coitus interruptus, withdrawal method, withdrawal, pulling out, onanism]
noun
Formal separation from an alliance or federation [syn: secession, withdrawal]
noun
The termination of drug taking [syn: withdrawal, drug withdrawal]
Definition of 'Withdrawal'
From: GCIDE
- Withdrawal \With*draw"al\, n. The act of withdrawing; withdrawment; retreat; retraction. --Fielding. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'withdrawal'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abandonment,
- abdication,
- abjuration,
- abjurement,
- abolishment,
- abolition,
- abrogation,
- absentation,
- abstraction,
- abulia,
- agreement to disagree,
- alienation,
- aloneness,
- aloofness,
- anesthesia,
- annulment,
- anxiety,
- anxiety equivalent,
- anxiety state,
- apartheid,
- apartness,
- apathy,
- apostasy,
- autism,
- autistic thinking,
- avoidance mechanism,
- avulsion,
- backwardness,
- bashfulness,
- blame-shifting,
- blankness,
- boredom,
- cancel,
- canceling,
- cancellation,
- carelessness,
- cassation,
- casting away,
- catatonia,
- catatonic stupor,
- celibacy,
- cessation,
- chill,
- chilliness,
- clearance,
- cold blood,
- cold heart,
- coldheartedness,
- coldness,
- compensation,
- compulsion,
- constraint,
- coolness,
- counter-culture,
- countermand,
- counterorder,
- cutting out,
- deadpan,
- decampment,
- decompensation,
- defeasance,
- defense mechanism,
- dejection,
- demission,
- denial,
- departure,
- deportation,
- deposal,
- depression,
- deracination,
- dereism,
- dereistic thinking,
- desuetude,
- detachment,
- difference,
- disaccord,
- disagreement,
- disapprobation,
- disapproval,
- disarticulation,
- disassociation,
- disavowal,
- discard,
- disclaimer,
- disclamation,
- disconnectedness,
- disconnection,
- discontinuity,
- discreetness,
- discretion,
- disengagement,
- disentanglement,
- disinterest,
- disinterestedness,
- disjointing,
- disjunction,
- dislocation,
- disowning,
- disownment,
- disparity,
- dispassion,
- dispassionateness,
- displacement,
- disposal,
- disposition,
- dissatisfaction,
- dissension,
- dissent,
- dissentience,
- dissidence,
- dissociation,
- distance,
- disunion,
- disuse,
- diversity,
- division,
- divorce,
- divorcement,
- drawing,
- drawing out,
- dredging,
- drilling,
- dropping out,
- dullness,
- egress,
- ejection,
- elation,
- elimination,
- emeritus status,
- emotional deadness,
- emotional insulation,
- emotionalism,
- emotionlessness,
- enucleation,
- eradication,
- escape,
- escape into fantasy,
- escape mechanism,
- escapism,
- euphoria,
- evacuation,
- evolvement,
- evulsion,
- excavation,
- excision,
- exile,
- exit,
- exodus,
- expatriation,
- expression,
- expressionlessness,
- expulsion,
- exsection,
- extirpation,
- extraction,
- extrication,
- fallback,
- fantasizing,
- fantasy,
- flight,
- folie du doute,
- forced resignation,
- forsaking,
- forswearing,
- frigidity,
- frostiness,
- getaway,
- going,
- guardedness,
- heartlessness,
- heedlessness,
- hegira,
- hypochondria,
- hysteria,
- hysterics,
- iciness,
- immovability,
- impassibility,
- impassiveness,
- impassivity,
- impersonality,
- inaccessibility,
- incoherence,
- incuriosity,
- incuriousness,
- indifference,
- indifferentism,
- indifferentness,
- inexcitability,
- insensibility,
- insouciance,
- intellectual inertia,
- introversion,
- invalidation,
- isolation,
- isolationism,
- jettison,
- jettisoning,
- Jim Crow,
- keeping apart,
- lack of affect,
- lack of feeling,
- lack of interest,
- lack of touch,
- leaving,
- lethargy,
- liquidation,
- listlessness,
- loneliness,
- loneness,
- lonesomeness,
- luxation,
- mania,
- melancholia,
- mental distress,
- mining,
- minority opinion,
- modesty,
- moving apart,
- negativism,
- nonagreement,
- nonassent,
- nonconcurrence,
- nonconformity,
- nonconsent,
- nullification,
- objectivity,
- obsession,
- obtuseness,
- opposition,
- ostracism,
- outlawing,
- outlawry,
- overcompensation,
- palinode,
- palinody,
- parting,
- partition,
- passing,
- passionlessness,
- pathological indecisiveness,
- poker face,
- preoccupation,
- pressing out,
- privacy,
- privatism,
- privatization,
- projection,
- psychalgia,
- psychomotor disturbance,
- psychotaxis,
- pullback,
- pulling,
- pulling out,
- pullout,
- purge,
- quarantine,
- quarrying,
- rationalization,
- recall,
- recantation,
- recedence,
- receding,
- recess,
- recession,
- reclusion,
- reculade,
- recusance,
- recusancy,
- regardlessness,
- rejection,
- relinquishment,
- remoteness,
- removal,
- renege,
- reneging,
- renouncement,
- renunciation,
- repeal,
- repression,
- repudiation,
- rescinding,
- rescindment,
- rescission,
- reserve,
- reservedness,
- resignation,
- resistance,
- restraint,
- reticence,
- reticency,
- retiral,
- retirement,
- retractation,
- retractility,
- retraction,
- retreat,
- retrocedence,
- reversal,
- revocation,
- revoke,
- revokement,
- riddance,
- ripping out,
- rustication,
- secession,
- seclusion,
- secrecy,
- segmentation,
- segregation,
- self-absorption,
- separateness,
- separation,
- separatism,
- sequestration,
- setting aside,
- severance,
- single blessedness,
- sociological adjustive reactions,
- solitariness,
- solitude,
- soullessness,
- spiritlessness,
- splendid isolation,
- squeezing out,
- standoffishness,
- stolidity,
- straight face,
- stupor,
- subdivision,
- sublimation,
- substitution,
- subtraction,
- superannuation,
- suppression,
- suspension,
- throwing overboard,
- tic,
- twitching,
- unaffability,
- unapproachability,
- unconcern,
- uncongeniality,
- undemonstrativeness,
- underground,
- unemotionalism,
- unexcitability,
- unexpansiveness,
- unfeeling,
- unfeelingness,
- unimpressibility,
- unimpressionableness,
- uninquisitiveness,
- uninterestedness,
- unmindfulness,
- unpassionateness,
- unresponsiveness,
- unrooting,
- unsaying,
- unsusceptibility,
- unsympatheticness,
- untouchability,
- uprooting,
- vacation,
- vacatur,
- variance,
- voidance,
- voiding,
- voluntary resignation,
- waiver,
- waiving,
- walkout,
- wish-fulfillment fantasy,
- wishful thinking,
- withdrawment,
- withdrawnness,
- wresting out,
- write-off,
- zoning