Synonyms for Defection:

• n.

  •
  • approach,
  • trust.
  •abandonment (noun)
  • faithlessness,
  • failure,
  • divorce,
  • rejection,
  • estrangement,
  • separation,
  • failing,
  • discontinuation,
  • disaffection,
  • apostasy,
  • parting,
  • withdrawal,
  • forsaking,
  • resignation,
  • abandonment,
  • desertion,
  • repudiation,
  • retreat,
  • surrender,
  • deficiency,
  • severance,
  • disownment,
  • lack,
  • abdication,
  • dereliction,
  • relinquishment,
  • alienation,
  • vacation,
  • backsliding,
  • tergiversation,
  • Sundering,
  • rebellion,
  • disloyalty.
  •act (noun)
  • defection.
  •change of heart (noun)
  • backpedalings,
  • change-heart,
  • re versal,
  • re-versal,
  • about face,
  • change heart.
  •defection (noun)
  • defalcation,
  • Renegation,
  • perfidy,
  • treason,
  • betrayal,
  • mutiny.
  •emigration (noun)
  • re establishment,
  • up-rooting,
  • dis-placements,
  • dis placement,
  • re-establishments,
  • re establishments,
  • trans planting,
  • re settlements,
  • dis placements,
  • re-locations,
  • ex patriation,
  • reestablishments,
  • re-settlement,
  • ex-patriation,
  • up rooting,
  • re location,
  • dis-placement,
  • homesteadings,
  • transplantings,
  • re locations,
  • ex-patriations,
  • ex patriations,
  • uprootings,
  • re settlement,
  • trans-planting,
  • re-settlements,
  • re-location.
  •heresy (noun)
  • in fidelities,
  • iconoclasms,
  • dis sents,
  • mis-beliefs,
  • dis-sents,
  • agnosticisms,
  • non-conformisms,
  • misbeliefs,
  • hetero doxies,
  • dis-belief,
  • mis belief,
  • dis belief,
  • non-conformities,
  • non conformism,
  • hetero doxy,
  • mis beliefs,
  • dis-beliefs,
  • non conformisms,
  • revisionisms,
  • secularisms,
  • paganisms,
  • dis sent,
  • non conformities,
  • hetero-doxies,
  • nonconformisms,
  • in-fidelity,
  • mis-belief,
  • hetero-doxy,
  • non conformity,
  • in fidelity,
  • dis beliefs,
  • sectarianisms,
  • non-conformism,
  • in-fidelities,
  • dis-sent.
  •immigration (noun)
  • trans migrations,
  • trans-migration,
  • trans migration,
  • trans-migrations.
  •infidelity (noun)
  • unfaithfulness.
  •Other relevant words: (noun)
  • revolt,
  • revisionism,
  • heresy,
  • Misbelief,
  • inconstancy,
  • agnosticism,
  • non-conformity,
  • Reestablishment,
  • infidelity,
  • heterodoxy,
  • settlings,
  • change of mind,
  • homesteading,
  • inconstancies,
  • paganism,
  • volte-face,
  • iconoclasm,
  • bad faith,
  • resettlements,
  • change of heart,
  • heterodoxies,
  • fickleness,
  • wanderings,
  • re-establishment,
  • change mind,
  • secularism,
  • Improbity,
  • resettlement,
  • nonconformism,
  • secession,
  • emigration,
  • skippings,
  • movings,
  • sectarianism,
  • immigration.
  •relinquishment (noun)
  • release,
  • renunciation,
  • capitulation,
  • Disclamation.
  •renunciation (noun)
  • about-face,
  • disavowal,
  • crossing,
  • denial,
  • renouncement,
  • abnegation,
  • Retractation,
  • turnabout.
  •revolt (noun)
  • risings.
  •secession (noun)
  • splinter group,
  • breakaways.
  •unfaithfulness (noun)
  • dis-loyalties,
  • dis loyalties,
  • in-constancies,
  • in constancy,
  • in-constancy,
  • ficklenesses,
  • dis loyalty,
  • un-faithfulnesses,
  • un-faithfulness,
  • un faithfulness,
  • in constancies,
  • un faithfulnesses,
  • bad faiths,
  • dis-loyalty.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • Recreance,
  • Recreancy.
  •Other relevant words:
  • edition,
  • debunking,
  • bolt out,
  • leave,
  • shame,
  • sacking,
  • pause,
  • go against,
  • crevice,
  • pagan religion,
  • crossbreeding,
  • number,
  • rehabilitation,
  • relinquishing,
  • dismission,
  • give out,
  • deflexion,
  • confound,
  • uprising,
  • vent,
  • err,
  • combine,
  • assortment,
  • mannerism,
  • mixture,
  • quip,
  • get around,
  • let on,
  • protestation,
  • enchant,
  • rent,
  • go along,
  • duty period,
  • capture,
  • let loose,
  • cartel,
  • expel,
  • changeover,
  • juvenile delinquency,
  • job,
  • bewilder,
  • entrance,
  • outlet,
  • interbreeding,
  • crossway,
  • runaway,
  • error,
  • informal,
  • crosswalk,
  • discontinue,
  • extenuation,
  • branch,
  • get out,
  • interrupt,
  • revitalization,
  • pull in one's horns,
  • button,
  • fuddle,
  • break through,
  • go about,
  • crawfish out,
  • penitence,
  • draw back,
  • legal separation,
  • retrogress,
  • convert,
  • easy,
  • faux pas,
  • move back,
  • loser,
  • permutation,
  • jam,
  • change state,
  • disjoint,
  • nauseate,
  • eluding,
  • dislodge,
  • draw near,
  • liberation,
  • nonstarter,
  • chicken out,
  • come near,
  • gobble,
  • allowance,
  • dissent,
  • crimp,
  • tear,
  • take in,
  • tour,
  • hope,
  • defence,
  • flip,
  • super,
  • slide by,
  • infect,
  • overhear,
  • crawfish,
  • objection,
  • glide path,
  • fall away,
  • confide,
  • try-on,
  • insurrection,
  • frizzle,
  • rising,
  • skid,
  • giving up,
  • declension,
  • back out,
  • discrepancy,
  • making,
  • smorgasbord,
  • vary,
  • vice,
  • bout,
  • cranny,
  • carrefour,
  • cakehole,
  • microbe,
  • peg,
  • steal,
  • happy chance,
  • germ,
  • crossover,
  • momentary,
  • turning,
  • twist,
  • better,
  • entrust,
  • back up,
  • befuddle,
  • crossroad,
  • crape,
  • part,
  • miss,
  • bolt of lightning,
  • let go,
  • deviance,
  • trustingness,
  • idle,
  • confidence,
  • founder,
  • recreant,
  • advance,
  • enamor,
  • about turn,
  • pegleg,
  • turn of events,
  • cast,
  • interruption,
  • refilling,
  • diverseness,
  • upset,
  • cave in,
  • approaching,
  • snatch,
  • spiritual rebirth,
  • have,
  • eject,
  • blackguard,
  • make,
  • elapse,
  • discharge,
  • recede,
  • budge,
  • erupt,
  • persistence,
  • passing,
  • bad,
  • unaffixed,
  • back down,
  • grab,
  • fox,
  • apostate,
  • let out,
  • teddy,
  • sprain,
  • blow,
  • self-renunciation,
  • hybridization,
  • scissure,
  • lapsing,
  • difference of opinion,
  • fissure,
  • reheel,
  • overtake,
  • inflection,
  • slick,
  • a-one,
  • self-denial,
  • break up,
  • fling,
  • slickness,
  • shot,
  • gross out,
  • mooring,
  • substitution,
  • sicken,
  • chap,
  • perfidiousness,
  • relapse,
  • assault,
  • glide by,
  • convulsion,
  • corporate trust,
  • lese majesty,
  • slapdash,
  • unfreeze,
  • decamp,
  • border on,
  • discover,
  • wiretap,
  • tops,
  • feebleness,
  • approach path,
  • backslide,
  • frailness,
  • reverse,
  • retrogression,
  • strip,
  • dislocate,
  • round,
  • at large,
  • divulge,
  • cad,
  • waiver,
  • default on,
  • cast off,
  • intermission,
  • disagreement,
  • peculation,
  • feeler,
  • badger,
  • impuissance,
  • subversiveness,
  • stepping down,
  • slip away,
  • open frame,
  • crock up,
  • hound,
  • bust,
  • solecism,
  • detachment,
  • light,
  • regenerate,
  • sack,
  • hitch,
  • fluctuation,
  • disgust,
  • misapplication,
  • acquittance,
  • shift key,
  • loss,
  • frizz,
  • slip-up,
  • turn around,
  • captivate,
  • bring out,
  • go up,
  • give away,
  • upthrust,
  • fugitive from justice,
  • mess,
  • breaking away,
  • turmoil,
  • see the light,
  • onanism,
  • weaken,
  • miscue,
  • drop off,
  • divergency,
  • traitorousness,
  • fleeting,
  • suspension,
  • flex,
  • die,
  • agitate,
  • mutant,
  • overrule,
  • infract,
  • expose,
  • mixed bag,
  • replacement,
  • slue,
  • remake,
  • desire,
  • variegation,
  • decadence,
  • access,
  • pickle,
  • thong,
  • recrudesce,
  • fail,
  • disunite,
  • tack,
  • derangement,
  • promiscuous,
  • fall back,
  • hideaway,
  • near,
  • discombobulate,
  • break down,
  • good luck,
  • beguile,
  • issue,
  • get,
  • cutting,
  • miscellanea,
  • wooden leg,
  • decline in quality,
  • make off,
  • give up,
  • transfer,
  • good turn,
  • resign,
  • reposition,
  • arrest,
  • out-migration,
  • ferment,
  • remainder,
  • changefulness,
  • kind,
  • deadbolt,
  • qualifying,
  • hybridisation,
  • electric switch,
  • variance,
  • magnetic variation,
  • agitation,
  • come apart,
  • elusion,
  • oversight,
  • bewitch,
  • see,
  • spell,
  • holiday,
  • multifariousness,
  • yielding,
  • collar,
  • meet,
  • shifting,
  • loosen,
  • mistake,
  • offer,
  • nonconformance,
  • going,
  • dash,
  • plow,
  • rape,
  • come on,
  • bale out,
  • retire,
  • haul,
  • pinch,
  • rick,
  • go by,
  • heathenism,
  • smack,
  • gaffe,
  • moderation,
  • drop,
  • displacement,
  • split up,
  • turn over,
  • bedevil,
  • tone ending,
  • fissiparous,
  • put out,
  • rigidly,
  • version,
  • in-migration,
  • tap,
  • hemipteran,
  • switch over,
  • dampen,
  • break-dance,
  • believe,
  • shed,
  • farewell,
  • snap off,
  • embezzlement,
  • annulment,
  • split,
  • ace,
  • contamination,
  • trying on,
  • ruin,
  • leave-taking,
  • mar,
  • defile,
  • slap,
  • wear,
  • hollow,
  • swap,
  • rotation,
  • moorage,
  • on the loose,
  • resist,
  • stroke,
  • develop,
  • view,
  • salmagundi,
  • glitch,
  • readjustment,
  • exchange,
  • mutation,
  • pillowcase,
  • breakout,
  • potpourri,
  • pester,
  • insufficiency,
  • offend,
  • revival meeting,
  • discontinuance,
  • transposition,
  • check,
  • transmutation,
  • bend,
  • turnaround,
  • become,
  • careen,
  • disowning,
  • move around,
  • match,
  • divagation,
  • bit,
  • hurl,
  • fascinate,
  • form,
  • stir,
  • separate,
  • sport,
  • overture,
  • rub,
  • crook,
  • climb-down,
  • falsity,
  • golf hole,
  • turncoat,
  • thunderbolt,
  • approach shot,
  • reveal,
  • drug withdrawal,
  • ratter,
  • treachery,
  • wanton,
  • alternate,
  • parapraxis,
  • list,
  • digression,
  • sour,
  • recidivate,
  • grow,
  • idiosyncrasy,
  • time out,
  • pull back,
  • exhaust,
  • becharm,
  • penance,
  • press release,
  • break in,
  • relinquish,
  • sneak,
  • slide,
  • recess,
  • sully,
  • retrograde,
  • absquatulate,
  • burst,
  • rectify,
  • change over,
  • break away,
  • run off,
  • uplift,
  • break out,
  • splay,
  • sideslip,
  • work,
  • break dance,
  • chemise,
  • withdrawal method,
  • curve,
  • whirl,
  • slip of paper,
  • slack,
  • divorcement,
  • defector,
  • relegate,
  • faith,
  • demurrer,
  • fall apart,
  • liberal,
  • cleft,
  • fall,
  • revision,
  • deliver,
  • take hold of,
  • cloud,
  • decadency,
  • spot,
  • black eye,
  • gap,
  • soften,
  • slipperiness,
  • subvert,
  • prisonbreak,
  • go bad,
  • inadequateness,
  • rip,
  • act,
  • replenishment,
  • cracking,
  • routine,
  • intercept,
  • flunk,
  • pitch contour,
  • magnetic declination,
  • lax,
  • sort,
  • deflection,
  • appointment,
  • unsuccessful person,
  • hybridizing,
  • open,
  • regress,
  • modify,
  • geological fault,
  • self-abnegation,
  • maw,
  • debility,
  • cross,
  • wisecrack,
  • degeneracy,
  • disassociate,
  • imperfectness,
  • motley,
  • trustfulness,
  • tease,
  • luxate,
  • momentaneous,
  • relapsing,
  • relax,
  • hole out,
  • transformation,
  • resurgence,
  • denominationalism,
  • run out,
  • variant,
  • confuse,
  • disgrace,
  • expatriation,
  • demote,
  • falling out,
  • fix,
  • pickup,
  • cede,
  • glide slope,
  • freeing,
  • trip,
  • topnotch,
  • changeability,
  • reliance,
  • respite,
  • collapse,
  • switching,
  • change by reversal,
  • ramification,
  • bankruptcy,
  • variety show,
  • reclaim,
  • expiration,
  • set about,
  • watch,
  • interval,
  • catch up with,
  • spillage,
  • draw close,
  • drop away,
  • work shift,
  • miscellany,
  • muddle,
  • unloose,
  • coming,
  • attaint,
  • registration,
  • renegade,
  • recreation,
  • unblock,
  • shake off,
  • devolution,
  • intonation,
  • insincerity,
  • stage,
  • smash,
  • publish,
  • rupture,
  • transgress,
  • withdraw,
  • gyration,
  • overturn,
  • breakup,
  • default option,
  • upthrow,
  • hemipteron,
  • go,
  • willful neglect,
  • override,
  • unorthodoxy,
  • dissociate,
  • churn up,
  • disruption,
  • let go of,
  • bring down,
  • dregs,
  • bang,
  • misappropriation,
  • alter,
  • separatist,
  • commit,
  • tornado,
  • slew,
  • bankrupt,
  • skepticism,
  • lurch,
  • interchange,
  • taking into custody,
  • go off,
  • snap,
  • beetle off,
  • uncover,
  • lam,
  • beleaguer,
  • bump,
  • straighten out,
  • hang-up,
  • kink up,
  • conflict,
  • violate,
  • trance,
  • sink,
  • hullabaloo,
  • slip by,
  • departure,
  • cam stroke,
  • exit,
  • reverting,
  • breakage,
  • sluttish,
  • excitement,
  • pick up,
  • escaped,
  • intrust,
  • liberate,
  • intersection,
  • shimmy,
  • corrupt,
  • kick downstairs,
  • fall in,
  • repel,
  • backdown,
  • hollowness,
  • unwrap,
  • wrick,
  • wear out,
  • tiptop,
  • plan of attack,
  • conk out,
  • scepticism,
  • relocation,
  • curl,
  • case,
  • revitalisation,
  • breach,
  • damp,
  • bounder,
  • gaucherie,
  • dog,
  • apprehension,
  • wobble,
  • break off,
  • crack up,
  • turbulence,
  • deface,
  • contrive,
  • deform,
  • plough,
  • wrench,
  • unloosen,
  • trouble,
  • diversionary attack,
  • bow out,
  • blame,
  • want,
  • setback,
  • slip one's mind,
  • twirl,
  • sally,
  • electrical switch,
  • palliation,
  • severing,
  • stop,
  • firing,
  • throw off,
  • informing,
  • reservation,
  • passage,
  • hold,
  • gob,
  • trade,
  • helplessness,
  • throw away,
  • give way,
  • pull away,
  • pull out,
  • commute,
  • top-notch,
  • reclamation,
  • dispute,
  • disfigure,
  • thrust,
  • limiting,
  • enamour,
  • tilt,
  • call on,
  • swop,
  • nonconformity,
  • trap,
  • trip up,
  • fracture,
  • intermit,
  • bemuse,
  • impairment,
  • decent,
  • gimmick,
  • disclose,
  • prison-breaking,
  • spill,
  • policy change,
  • equivocation,
  • stiffly,
  • pass,
  • sezession,
  • ford,
  • break of serve,
  • attack,
  • evasion,
  • pitch,
  • rebirth,
  • pillow slip,
  • dismissal,
  • ravish,
  • play,
  • yap,
  • defense,
  • crick,
  • outrage,
  • reversion,
  • handout,
  • kettle of fish,
  • desert,
  • project,
  • deepen,
  • give,
  • berth,
  • first-rate,
  • pulling out,
  • charm,
  • unleash,
  • secrete,
  • free.
  •Other relevant words (noun):
  • diversification,
  • falseness,
  • diversion,
  • blemish,
  • Mutinousness,
  • abjuration,
  • sedition,
  • degeneration,
  • renewal,
  • variety,
  • default,
  • modification,
  • breakaway,
  • amelioration,
  • crossing over,
  • runout,
  • reshaping,
  • defect,
  • difference,
  • upheaval,
  • weak point,
  • weak link,
  • refraction,
  • lapse,
  • deviationism,
  • change,
  • modulation,
  • divergence,
  • revivification,
  • overthrow,
  • Revokement,
  • turn,
  • accommodation,
  • catch,
  • revocation,
  • fitting,
  • recantation,
  • shortcoming,
  • disaffiliation,
  • Palinode,
  • changeableness,
  • adjustment,
  • reformation,
  • reform,
  • revival,
  • alteration,
  • total change,
  • imperfection,
  • Seceding,
  • shift,
  • negation,
  • inadequacy,
  • high treason,
  • misprision of treason,
  • weakness,
  • dishonor,
  • variation,
  • re-creation,
  • absence without leave,
  • adaptation,
  • disclaimer,
  • transition,
  • bug,
  • melioration,
  • repentance,
  • reversal,
  • petty treason,
  • kink,
  • Recidivation,
  • uncollectible,
  • worsening,
  • rift,
  • hole,
  • nonpayment,
  • Premunire,
  • protest,
  • switch,
  • gradual change,
  • deserter,
  • walkout,
  • demerit,
  • revolution,
  • foible,
  • remaking,
  • break,
  • recidivism,
  • retraction,
  • radical change,
  • mitigation,
  • fault,
  • breaking,
  • betterment,
  • qualification,
  • sudden change,
  • continuity,
  • frailty,
  • diversity,
  • restructuring,
  • improvement,
  • taint,
  • Dishonoring,
  • deviation,
  • retirement,
  • nonremittal,
  • drawback,
  • bad debt,
  • turning traitor,
  • Nolle Prosequi,
  • bolt,
  • schism,
  • deterioration,
  • problem,
  • redesign,
  • ratting,
  • conversion,
  • decampment,
  • Abjurement,
  • vulnerable place,
  • realignment,
  • crack,
  • flaw,
  • lese majeste,
  • absenteeism,
  • flip-flop,
  • discontinuity,
  • dishonour,
  • Palinody,
  • snag,
  • infirmity,
  • faute,
  • delinquency.

Paraphrases for Defection:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    desertion.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    abandonment, escape.
  • Verb, gerund or present participle
    fleeing, Escaping.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    flight, dropout.

Antonyms for Defection:

• n.

  • abandonment
    faithfulness, plenty, joining, loyalty, enough, harmony.

Homophones for Defection:

• devastation, deification, depiction, divagation, deposition.

Hypernym for Defection:

• n.

  • act
    deviationism, abscondment, absence without leave, unauthorized absence, decampment.

Hyponym for Defection:

• n.

  • act
    withdrawal.