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Breakup

/ˈbɹeɪkʌp/

The act of breaking up; disintegration or division.

📖 Definitions of "Breakup"

noun

1
The act of breaking up; disintegration or division.
2
The termination of a friendship, or a romantic relationship.
3
A loss of emotional control; a breakdown.
4
(Alaska and northern Canada) The time of year during which winter ice covering bodies of water disintegrates, or more generally Spring.

3 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
detachmentnoun	(uncountable) Indifference to the concerns of others; disregard; nonchalance; aloofness.
dissolutionnoun	Dissolving, or going into solution.
separationnoun	The act of disuniting two or more things, or the condition of being separated.

Found via reverse dictionary — words that share a conceptual meaning.

Word	Definition
separationnoun	The act of disuniting two or more things, or the condition of being separated.
dissolutionnoun	Dissolving, or going into solution.
detachmentnoun	(uncountable) Indifference to the concerns of others; disregard; nonchalance; aloofness.
break-upnoun	Alternative spelling of breakup. [The act of breaking up; disintegration or division.]
dismantlingnoun	The act by which something is dismantled.
dismantlementnoun	The act of dismantling; disassembly.
dislocationnoun	The act of displacing, or the state of being displaced.
disbandverb	(ambitransitive) To break up or (cause to) cease to exist; to disperse.
severancenoun	A severance payment.
breakdownnoun	(countable) A failure, particularly one which is mechanical in nature.
decommissioningnoun	The act by which something is decommissioned.
fallnoun	The act of moving to a lower position under the effect of gravity.
disintegrationnoun	A process by which anything disintegrates.
disbandmentnoun	The act of disbanding
disconnectionnoun	Absence of rapport; the nonexistence of, or a breakdown of, effective communication.
collapsenoun	The act of collapsing.
disbandingnoun	A disbandment.
breaknoun	An instance of breaking something into two or more pieces.
departurenoun	The act of departing or something that has departed.
interruptionnoun	The act of interrupting, or the state of being interrupted.