| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
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| NOUN: | 1. An interruption in friendly relations: breach, break, disaffection, estrangement, fissure, rent2, rift, rupture, schism, split. See ASSEMBLE, HELP. 2. The act of estranging or the condition of being estranged: disaffection, estrangement. See LOVE. 3. Law. A making over of legal ownership or title: Law : assignment, conveyance, grant, transfer, transferal. See LAW. 4. Psychology. Serious mental illness or disorder impairing a person's capacity to function normally and safely: brainsickness, craziness, dementia, derangement, disturbance, insaneness, insanity, lunacy, madness, mental illness, psychopathy, unbalance. Psychiatry : mania. Psychology : aberration. See SANE.
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