Associations to the word «Disaffection»

Wiktionary

DISAFFECTION, noun. Discontent; unrest.
DISAFFECTION, noun. Alienation; loss of loyalty.

Dictionary definition

DISAFFECTION, noun. The feeling of being alienated from other people.
DISAFFECTION, noun. Disloyalty to the government or to established authority; "the widespread disaffection of the troops".

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope