DISENGAGEMENT Synonyms: 14 Similar and Opposite Words

disengagement

noun

Definition of disengagement

as in revulsion

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Recent Examples of disengagement Supportive leaders build trust, belonging and engagement; disconnected leaders risk disengagement and turnover. — Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 28 Sep. 2026 Experts point to factors including mobility barriers and a sense of disengagement that is not unique to older voters, but can accentuate with age. — Constance Malleret, Christian Science Monitor, 23 Sep. 2026 The solitude of the narrator in Dillard’s nonfiction and her apparent disengagement with society also was a source of criticism. — Amy Cannon, The Conversation, 18 Sep. 2026 The damage to the sport, in terms of lost revenues and fan disengagement, rises the more games that are missed. — Evan Drellich, New York Times, 26 Aug. 2026 Today, young people are increasingly frustrated with the hypocrisy of politicians lecturing them about the virtues of voting while in practice facilitating disengagement. — David Neil, New York Daily News, 15 Aug. 2026 Some of that increase reflects the Central Bank’s own push to link accounts to verified identity numbers, which forced a wave of closures and reclassifications rather than pure customer disengagement. — Aishah N. Ahmad, semafor.com, 3 Aug. 2026

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Noun

Someone else expresses revulsion at seeing dogs devour bodies left to rot, but the disgust doesn’t seem to extend to the killings themselves.

— Jay Weissberg, Variety, 10 Sep. 2026
Anyone with even the mildest case of trypophobia—the sense of revulsion from tiny clusters and holes—should avert their eyes.

— Brady Brickner-Wood, New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of revulsion

Noun

And the fact that its recoil didn’t threaten to detach your retinas with each trigger pull was a big bonus.

— John B. Snow, Outdoor Life, 24 Sep. 2026
On rare occasions, however, one such particle could collide with an atomic nucleus and produce a tiny recoil — precisely the kind of event the LZ experiment is designed to detect.

— Jacopo Prisco, CNN Money, 14 Sep. 2026

Definition of recoil

Noun

Joe Biden’s withdrawal from the presidential race in 2024 was an early case in point.

— Simon Denny, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026
Others who express hesitation or opposition to bans often cite the risk of sending people who are dependent on 7-OH into withdrawal, and potentially leading them to other, more dangerous substances.

— Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 30 Sep. 2026

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