Exact Match:
- secession
- formal separation from an alliance or federation
- the withdrawal of eleven southern states from the Union in 1860 which precipitated the American Civil War
- an Austrian school of art and architecture parallel to the French art nouveau in the 1890s
Synonyms:
- agreement to disagree,
- alienation,
- apostasy,
- backsliding,
- betrayal,
- bolt,
- break,
- breakaway,
- breaking,
- counter-culture,
- defection,
- dereliction,
- deserter,
- desertion,
- difference,
- disaccord,
- disagreement,
- disapprobation,
- disapproval,
- disloyalty,
- disparity,
- dissatisfaction,
- dissension,
- dissent,
- dissentience,
- dissidence,
- diversity,
- dropping out,
- faithlessness,
- going over,
- minority opinion,
- nonagreement,
- nonassent,
- nonconcurrence,
- nonconformity,
- nonconsent,
- opposition,
- ratting,
- recidivation,
- recidivism,
- recreancy,
- recusance,
- recusancy,
- rejection,
- repudiation,
- retirement,
- schism,
- separation,
- treason,
- turning traitor,
- underground,
- variance,
- walkout,
- withdrawal