What are the opposite words for retention?
Retention refers to the ability to retain or remember something. Its antonyms are forgetfulness, loss, and amnesia. Forgetfulness refers to the state of being absent-minded or forgetful, unable to remember something. Loss, on the other hand, means the absence of something that was previously there. It may refer to a loss of memory or a loss of something tangible like financial loss. Amnesia refers to a condition where one loses all or part of their memory. Simply put, having forgetfulness or amnesia is the opposite of retention, meaning you are unable to remember or retain something. Loss describes a situation where you don't have what you once had.
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- annulment
- acquittal
- dismissal
- order
- discharge
- custody
- expulsion
- freedom
- memory
- categorization
- execution
- keeping
- ouster
- release
- cast
- classification
- consignment
- delivery
- deposition
- dispatch
- disposal
- distribution
- ejection
- declaration removing blame
- a throw to the side
- entrusting, handing over
- transfer, transmittal
- dethroning, ousting
- abolition
- setting free
- speed in carrying out action
- parting with or throwing something away
- allocation, dispersion
- carrying out of a task
- political independence
- arrangement, organization
- load of goods
- Other relevant words
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annulment
- neutralization,
- retraction,
- vitiation,
- Rescindment,
- neutralizations,
- countermandings,
- de domiciling,
- de-domiciling,
- dedomiciling,
- dedomicilings,
- dis solution,
- dis solutions,
- dis-solution,
- dis-solutions,
- erasings,
- going phfft,
- going phffts,
- in validation,
- in validations,
- in-validation,
- re call,
- re calls,
- re peal,
- re peals,
- re scission,
- re scissions,
- re traction,
- re tractions,
- re versal,
- re vocation,
- re vocations,
- re-call,
- re-calls,
- re-peal,
- re-peals,
- re-scission,
- re-scissions,
- re-traction,
- re-tractions,
- re-versal,
- re-vocation,
- re-vocations,
- rescindings,
- rescindments,
- split ups,
- un doing,
- un doings,
- un-doing,
- un-doings,
- vitiations,
- voidings.
- acquittal
-
dismissal
- dislodgment,
- Deposal,
- housecleaning,
- Freedoms,
- kiss off,
- brushoff,
- brush offs,
- brush-off,
- brush-offs,
- brushoffs,
- deposals,
- dis lodgment,
- dis lodgments,
- dis missal,
- dis missals,
- dis possession,
- dis possessions,
- dis-lodgment,
- dis-lodgments,
- dis-missal,
- dis-missals,
- dis-possession,
- dis-possessions,
- dislodgments,
- ex patriations,
- ex-patriation,
- ex-patriations,
- housecleanings,
- kiss offs,
- kiss-off,
- kiss-offs,
- kissoff,
- kissoffs,
- old heave ho,
- old heave-ho,
- old heave-hos,
- old heaveho,
- old heavehos.
- order
-
discharge
- conge,
- demobilization,
- exudation,
- remittance,
- suppuration,
- Remittances,
- exudations,
- firings,
- unburdening,
- the boot,
- bum rush,
- bums rush,
- conges,
- de mobilization,
- de mobilizations,
- de-mobilization,
- de-mobilizations,
- demobilizations,
- dis burdening,
- dis charge,
- dis charges,
- dis imprisonment,
- dis imprisonments,
- dis-burdening,
- dis-charge,
- dis-charges,
- dis-imprisonment,
- dis-imprisonments,
- disburdenings,
- disimprisonment,
- disimprisonments,
- emptyings,
- ex plosion,
- ex plosions,
- ex-plosion,
- old heave hos,
- suppurations,
- the boots,
- the door,
- the doors,
- un burdening,
- un lading,
- un ladings,
- un-burdening,
- un-lading,
- un-ladings,
- unburdenings,
- unladings.
- custody
- expulsion
- freedom
- memory
- categorization
- execution
- keeping
- ouster
- release
- cast
-
classification
- codification,
- collocation,
- coordination,
- sizing,
- taxonomy,
- Cataloguing,
- Taxonomies,
- typecasting,
- collocations,
- co-ordination,
- alloting,
- allotings,
- cataloguings,
- categorizings,
- co ordination,
- co ordinations,
- co-ordinations,
- codifications,
- coordinations,
- de nomination,
- de nominations,
- de-nomination,
- de-nominations,
- dis position,
- dis positions,
- dis-position,
- dis-positions,
- distributings,
- gradings,
- orderings,
- pigeonholings,
- tabulatings,
- typecastings.
- consignment
-
delivery
- parcel post,
- portage,
- Freighting,
- Geniture,
- Impartment,
- Intrusting,
- bringing forth,
- bringing forths,
- caesarian sections,
- cartings,
- de liveries,
- de livery,
- de-liveries,
- de-livery,
- freightings,
- giving over,
- giving overs,
- handing overs,
- impartments,
- in flections,
- in trusting,
- in-flection,
- in-trusting,
- intrustings,
- lyingin,
- parcel posts,
- sur renders,
- sur-render,
- sur-renders,
- trans mission,
- trans missions,
- trans-mission.
-
deposition
- impeachment,
- unfrocking,
- de gradation,
- de gradations,
- de position,
- de positions,
- de-gradation,
- de-gradations,
- de-position,
- de-positions,
- dis placement,
- dis placements,
- dis-placement,
- dis-placements,
- impeachments,
- over throw,
- over throws,
- over-throw,
- over-throws,
- un frocking,
- un-frocking,
- unfrockings.
- dispatch
-
disposal
- jettison,
- transference,
- junking,
- auctioning,
- auctionings,
- barterings,
- be quest,
- be quests,
- be-quest,
- be-quests,
- chuckings,
- de stroying,
- de termination,
- de terminations,
- de-stroying,
- de-termination,
- de-terminations,
- demolishings,
- dis carding,
- dis cardings,
- dis patching,
- dis-carding,
- dis-cardings,
- dis-patching,
- discardings,
- dispatchings,
- jettisonings,
- junkings,
- placings,
- pro vision,
- pro visions,
- pro-vision,
- pro-visions,
- scrappings,
- transferences,
- vendings,
- winding ups.
- distribution
- ejection
- declaration removing blame
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a throw to the side
- cast.
- entrusting, handing over
- transfer, transmittal
- dethroning, ousting
- abolition
- setting free
- speed in carrying out action
- parting with or throwing something away
- allocation, dispersion
- carrying out of a task
- political independence
- arrangement, organization
- load of goods
- Other relevant words
Antonym of the day
were one back
- Antonyms:
- aid, discourage, dissuade.
