All breakaway synonyms

noun breakaway

• withdrawal — Also, withdrawment. the act or condition of withdrawing.
• breakup — The breakup of a marriage, relationship, or association is the act of it finishing or coming to an end because the people involved decide that it is not working successfully.
• separation — an act or instance of separating or the state of being separated.
• division — the act or process of dividing; state of being divided.
• defection — the act or an instance of defecting
• rift — an opening made by splitting, cleaving, etc.; fissure; cleft; chink.
• disunion — a severance of union; separation; disjunction.
• schism — division or disunion, especially into mutually opposed parties.
• dissension — strong disagreement; a contention or quarrel; discord.
• split — to divide or separate from end to end or into layers: to split a log in two.
• rupture — the act of breaking or bursting: The flood led to the rupture of the dam.
• parting — a portion or division of a whole that is separate or distinct; piece, fragment, fraction, or section; constituent: the rear part of the house; to glue the two parts together.
• splinter group — a small organization that becomes separated from or acts apart from an original larger group or a number of other small groups, with which it would normally be united, as because of disagreement.
• disaffiliate — to sever affiliation with; disassociate: He disaffiliated himself from the political group he had once led.