departure

departure

noun

Definition of DEPARTURE

1

the act of leaving a place <his sudden departure left them wondering if they'd upset him>

Synonyms decamping, decampment, departing, exit, exiting, farewell, going, leave, leave-taking, lighting out, outgo, parting, quitting, walking out

Related Words flight, retirement, retreat, running away, withdrawal; diaspora, emigration, evacuation, exodus; embarkation, embarkment; disembarkation, egress; abandonment, forsaking, relinquishment

Near Antonyms coming; approach, entrance, ingress

Antonyms advent, appearance, arrival

2

a turning away from a course or standard <any departure from the modernist orthodoxy was scorned by the city's cultural elite>

Synonyms deflection, departure, detour, deviation, divagation, divergency, diversion

Related Words regression, retrogression, reversion

Near Antonyms adherence