Abandonment

Synonyms for abandonment:

Sense 1

unrestraint, Demission, quitclaim, wantonness.

Sense 2

incontinence.

Sense 3

wildness.

withdrawal

evacuation.

zeal

fanaticism.

Sense 2 (noun)

waiver, Demission, quitclaim.

abandon (noun)

unrestraint, wildness, lightheartedness, wantonness.

abandonment (noun)

forsaking, abdication, tergiversation, resignation, desertion, relinquishment, discontinuation, apostasy, withdrawal, vacation, surrender, defection.

abdication (noun)

renunciation, resignation, quitclaim, surrender, waiver, relinquishment.

act (noun)

forsaking, desertion.

cessation (noun)

ending, interruption, stay, cessation, hiatus, halt, termination, closure, standstill, discontinuance, end, pause, stoppage.

closing (noun)

shutdown.

departure (noun)

exit, exodus, departure, leave-taking, parting, embarkation.

desolation (noun)

barrenness, inhospitability, bleakness, loneliness, desert, emptiness, starkness.

disuse (noun)

obsoleteness, refusal, desuetude, rejection, Rustiness, disuse.

forsaking (noun)

desertion, dereliction.

hopelessness (noun)

disheartenment, anguish, spiritlessness, despondency, discouragement, desperation, despair, dispiritedness, forlornness, melancholy, heartlessness, misery, cheerlessness, pessimism, depression, dejection, gloominess, hopelessness, glumness, moroseness, downheartedness.

leaving (noun)

departure.

quitclaim (noun)

renouncement.

rejection (noun)

eradication, curtailment, Blackballing, expulsion, ejection, exclusion, elimination, denial, blacklisting, Disallowance, repudiation, disapproval.

relinquishment (noun)

release, renunciation, capitulation, waiver, Disclamation, dereliction.

renunciation (noun)

about-face, betrayal, disavowal, crossing, abnegation, backsliding, turnabout, Retractation, renouncement.

resignation (noun)

retirement, acceptance.

riddance (noun)

riddance, dismissal, relegation, cancellation, disposal.

closing (verb)

shutdown.

Usage examples for abandonment:

• A more perfect friend I never knew, nor one more capable of complete abandonment to a person for whom he had any real regard, and I can only hope that it may be my good fortune to find the materials which will enable me to represent him autobiographically in a somewhat different light to that in which he appears now. - "The Autobiography of Mark Rutherford", Mark Rutherford.
• However, this change in title does not imply any abandonment of our phenomenological approach. - "Humanistic-Nursing", Paterson, Josephine G..