DISUNION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disunion mean? 

• DISUNION (noun)
  The noun DISUNION has 1 sense:

1. the termination or destruction of union

  Familiarity information: DISUNION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISUNION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The termination or destruction of union

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Hypernyms ("disunion" is a kind of...):

separation (the act of dividing or disconnecting)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disunion"):

detribalisation; detribalization (the decline or termination of tribal organization)

Antonym:

union (the act of making or becoming a single unit)

Derivation:

disunite (part; cease or break association with)

 Context examples 

I need not say that we were strangers to any species of disunion or dispute.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

We had not, said Miss Clarissa, been in the habit of frequent association with our brother Francis; but there was no decided division or disunion between us.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)