DIVORCEMENT Synonyms: 40 Similar and Opposite Words

divorcement

noun

Definition of divorcement

as in severance

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Noun

These questions should be answered before a major restructuring, not after severance decisions have been made.

— Kevin Chan, Forbes.com, 9 Sep. 2026
Meg Scheding learned from an attorney friend to negotiate her severance agreement after she was laid off in 2018 months after giving birth.

— Jennifer Liu, CNBC, 2 Sep. 2026

Definition of severance

Noun

He was haunted by Switzerland’s position of neutrality during the fight against the Nazis, and he was troubled by the accommodations his prosperous countrymen were willing to make after the war to maintain their comfortable detachment.

— Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2026
Taken to its most extreme logic of detachment from humanity, exerting the the will into a detachment from one’s physical life—the Romans called it suicide.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 15 Sep. 2026

Definition of detachment

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Standard assays for measuring plastic breakdown are exceptionally slow because solid PET plastic resists dissolution, stretching testing timelines across several days.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 21 Sep. 2026
Although the establishment of the broad pro-democracy bloc that set aside other disagreements was a necessary response to a political crisis, its eventual dissolution will also probably be a sign of civic health.

— David A. Graham, The Atlantic, 18 Sep. 2026

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