All defection synonyms

noun defection

• abandonment — The abandonment of a place, thing, or person is the act of leaving it permanently or for a long time, especially when you should not do so.
• rejection — the act or process of rejecting.
• divorce — a divorced man.
• revolt — to break away from or rise against constituted authority, as by open rebellion; cast off allegiance or subjection to those in authority; rebel; mutiny: to revolt against the present government.
• failure — an act or instance of failing or proving unsuccessful; lack of success: His effort ended in failure. The campaign was a failure.
• desertion — the act of deserting or abandoning or the state of being deserted or abandoned
• withdrawal — Also, withdrawment. the act or condition of withdrawing.
• repudiation — the act of repudiating.
• failing — Slang. an embarrassing or humorous mistake, humiliating situation, etc., that is subject to ridicule and given an exaggerated importance: Their app update is a massive fail. the condition or quality resulting from having failed in this way: His online post is full of fail. a person who fails in this way.
• disloyalty — the quality of being disloyal; lack of loyalty; unfaithfulness.
• alienation — a turning away; estrangement
• severance — the act of severing or the state of being severed.
• dereliction — If a building or a piece of land is in a state of dereliction, it is deserted or abandoned.
• lack — something missing or needed: After he left, they really felt the lack.
• rebellion — open, organized, and armed resistance to one's government or ruler.
• deficiency — Deficiency in something, especially something that your body needs, is not having enough of it.
• self-estrangement — to turn away in feeling or affection; make unfriendly or hostile; alienate the affections of: Their quarrel estranged the two friends.
• retreat — the forced or strategic withdrawal of an army or an armed force before an enemy, or the withdrawing of a naval force from action.
• separation — an act or instance of separating or the state of being separated.
• disaffection — the absence or alienation of affection or goodwill; estrangement; disloyalty: Disaffection often leads to outright treason.
• tergiversation — to change repeatedly one's attitude or opinions with respect to a cause, subject, etc.; equivocate.
• apostasy — If someone is accused of apostasy, they are accused of abandoning their religious faith, political loyalties, or principles.
• 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.
• disownment — to refuse to acknowledge as belonging or pertaining to oneself; deny the ownership of or responsibility for; repudiate; renounce: to disown one's heirs; to disown a published statement.
• backsliding — If you accuse someone of backsliding, you disapprove of them because they have failed to do something they promised or agreed to do, or have started again doing something undesirable that they had previously stopped doing.
• recreancy — cowardly or craven.