Definition for Desertion:

• The act of deserting; the state of being deserted or forsaken; spiritual despondency.

Synonyms for Desertion:

• adj.

  •absent without leave (adjective)
  • more desertion,
  • hookier,
  • truanciest,
  • truancier,
  • hookiest,
  • most desertion.

• n.

  •
  • call up,
  • conscript,
  • commission,
  • buy out,
  • cashier,
  • 4-F,
  • conscription,
  • awol.
  •
  • keep.
  •abandonment (noun)
  • divorce,
  • avoidance,
  • departure,
  • abdication,
  • truancy,
  • falseness,
  • rejection,
  • forsaking,
  • surrender,
  • Absconding,
  • secession,
  • defection,
  • discontinuation,
  • treachery,
  • evasion,
  • derelict,
  • repudiation,
  • castoff,
  • withdrawal,
  • disaffection,
  • retirement,
  • disavowal,
  • abrogation,
  • resignation,
  • elusion,
  • falling away,
  • backsliding,
  • departing,
  • dereliction,
  • renunciation,
  • betrayal,
  • apostasy,
  • perfidy,
  • Marooning,
  • running out on,
  • flight,
  • retreat,
  • relinquishment,
  • going back on,
  • defecting,
  • Disavowing,
  • vacation,
  • leaving.
  •defection (noun)
  • re treats,
  • dis-loyalty,
  • dis-affection,
  • dis-loyalties,
  • dis affections,
  • forsakings,
  • re volts,
  • dis loyalties,
  • dis affection,
  • sunderings,
  • re-volt,
  • re-treats,
  • disownments,
  • re-treat,
  • dis loyalty,
  • re-volts,
  • dis-affections,
  • re volt.
  •departure (noun)
  • going away,
  • setting out,
  • sailings,
  • embarkation,
  • hegira,
  • walkout,
  • going,
  • vanishing act,
  • egress,
  • taking leave,
  • setting forth,
  • egression,
  • egressions,
  • walkouts,
  • conge.
  •disappearance (noun)
  • wearing away,
  • ceasing to exist,
  • Vanishment,
  • disappearing act,
  • dematerialization,
  • ebbings,
  • decline and fall.
  •disuse (noun)
  • disuse,
  • Rustiness,
  • obsoleteness,
  • desuetude,
  • refusal.
  •escape (noun)
  • elusiveness,
  • extrications,
  • out,
  • fadeout,
  • by-passing,
  • runaround,
  • OUTS,
  • duckings,
  • elusions,
  • elopements,
  • extrication,
  • eschewal,
  • elopement.
  •going (noun)
  • quittins.
  •recreance (noun)
  • re creance,
  • re-creances,
  • re creances,
  • re-creance.
  •relinquishment (noun)
  • release,
  • capitulation,
  • Disclamation.
  •renunciation (noun)
  • abnegation,
  • renouncement,
  • about-face,
  • crossing,
  • turnabout,
  • Retractation,
  • denial.
  •riddance (noun)
  • dismissal,
  • riddance,
  • disposal,
  • cancellation,
  • relegation.
  •vanishment (noun)
  • fade outs,
  • fade-outs.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • conversion.
  •pusillanimity
  • cowardice.
  •truancy
  • absenteeism.

Paraphrases for Desertion:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    defection.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    non-completion, cessation, negligence, withdrawal.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    abandonment, dropout, drop-out, neglect, discontinuation, attrition, dereliction, departure, discontinuance, relinquishment, renunciation, abandon, surrender.

Antonyms for Desertion:

• n.

  • abandonment
    meeting, coming, ratification, approval, help, allowance, stay, arrival, Staying, assistance, aid.
  • Other antonyms:
    repossession, Recoupment, retention, reclamation, retrieval.

Desertion Sentence Examples:

• But A woman's surrender is in reality a desertion, a going over to the enemy.

• Pitiless desertion of the aged and the helpless, death by violence, doubtless, the starving moon had shone upon; but none had lived to tell the tale, none had seen the evidence, except those who had profited with their lives, and their lips were forever sealed.

Homophones for Desertion:

• degradation, discretion, dessert wine, decoration, desecration, dissertation, dishearten, dacrydium.