disintegration
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6.7
- noun
- /ˌdɪsɪnˈtɪɡreɪʃən/
- Britain sought to protect Nigerian society from rapid disintegration arising from the impact of Western civilization.
- social disintegration
- rapid disintegration
- political disintegration
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Watch on YouTubeDo you not see the inevitability of the disintegration of governments?
- Do you not see the inevitability of the disintegration of governments?
- The broader context is the fall of empire and process of disintegration of empire, not the story of NATO.
- There are forces of integration bumping up against working alongside forces of disintegration.
- Every turn of your life can lead you to disintegration.
- And also, if we're honest, recognizing it's disintegration and it's, it's propensity for plurality.
- You'll go from ignorance to don't worry to fear, to anxiety, suppression, depression, disease, disintegration go over on the other side.
Examples
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The disintegration of their relationship was gradual, marked by a lack of communication.
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The more Lebanon was fragmented and threatened with total disintegration, the more intense our nationalistic feelings became.
Academic text (1993) -
Unfortunately, the process of disintegration has begun.
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Second, the military has a duty to stop the disintegration of Nigeria as a political entity.
Academic text (1990) -
Thus, the first phase of democratization led to civil war, disintegration, and the creation of new states.
Academic text (1999) -
Stability can be preserved during reforms, and the disintegration of society can be avoided.
Academic text (1991) -
For the Taino, political disintegration and the decimation of the population occurred simultaneously.
Academic text (1990) -
The sections of this third mode of narration relate the establishment and eventual disintegration of the island society.
Academic text (1990) -
To avert the catastrophic disintegration of Muslim society, the credibility of its leadership must be restored.
Academic text (1993) -
The county agrees with the church and considers the poem emblematic of modern society's moral disintegration.
Synonyms
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4.1
A sudden failure, for example of a person or a building
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4.2
Divided into opposing parts within a group
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4.4
A failure in a system or relationship that stops it working properly
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3.6
A separation into parts when something falls apart
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6.8
The official ending of a group like a partnership or parliament
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4.4
The act of taking a machine or system apart
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6.8
A change that stops the normal way a system or community works
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3.8
A lack of order or system that makes things untidy
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6.8
When a group or society breaks into smaller parts and loses shared values
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7.1
A serious break between people or groups that causes a lack of trust
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5.9
The act of taking a machine or building apart into separate parts
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8.1
A situation when people or groups are not united
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7.8
The act of separating something from a group or connection
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5.0
Separating things that were joined before, for example train cars
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7.5
Breaking up an organized group like a band or army
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7.9
Breaking a whole into smaller separate parts
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7.5
A situation where groups are split and do not work together
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8.9
Separation of parts that are normally joined in a structure or machine
Parts that were held together come apart
Antonyms
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Surface Forms
Morphology
disintegration = disintegrate (semi-transparent) = dis + integrate + ion
The noun is a straightforward nominalization of 'disintegrate', whose parts are semantically coherent.
Etymology
Disintegration comes from dis- 'apart' and integrate from integer 'whole', so it literally means 'not whole'. That is why we use it for systems or groups: when order, trust, or unity falls away and the group no longer stays whole, it has undergone disintegration.