disunion

[ dis-yoon-yuhn ]

noun

1. a severance of union; separation; disjunction.
2. lack of unity; dissension.

Word History and Origins

Origin of disunion¹

First recorded in 1590–1600; dis- ¹ + union

Example Sentences

One subject seems to be unifying the right and the left today: Disunion.

From New York Times

The Series is just one emblem of a larger state of disunion.

From Los Angeles Times

“To choose love over hate, unity over disunion, progress over retreat.”

From Seattle Times

The country was divided, in the “Great Disunion of 1945,” into Northern and Southern Territories, and a wall was constructed between them.

From New York Times

As a historian of the period, I find Stampp’s case for 1857 as the great pivot on the road to disunion to be persuasive largely because of the Dred Scott case, which stoked the fear, distrust and conspiratorial hatred already common in both the North and the South to new levels of intensity.

From New York Times