Associations to the word «Disconnection»

Wiktionary

DISCONNECTION, noun. Severance of a physical connection.
DISCONNECTION, noun. Unexpected termination of a telephone connection.
DISCONNECTION, noun. Absence of rapport; the nonexistence of, or a breakdown of, effective communication.

Dictionary definition

DISCONNECTION, noun. State of being disconnected.
DISCONNECTION, noun. An unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding); "he felt a gulf between himself and his former friends"; "there is a vast disconnect between public opinion and federal policy".
DISCONNECTION, noun. The act of breaking a connection.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats