dissolution

The termination of an organized body or legislative assembly, especially a formal dismissal.

Noun

  1. The termination of an organized body or legislative assembly, especially a formal dismissal.

    Synonyms: abolition disestablishment

    Antonyms: establishment foundation

  2. Disintegration, or decomposition into fragments.
    • The whole fabric dries up, or becomes putrid; and, in both cases, sooner or later, tends to a dissolution. - 1822, John Barclay, chapter I, in An Inquiry Into the Opinions, Ancient and Modern, Concerning Life and...
    • On August 16, 2014, a 24-year-old male programmer posted a more than 9,000-word tirade about the dissolution of his relationship with video game developer Zoë Quinn. - 2025 March 23, Harmeet Kaur, “How Gamergate...
  3. Dissolving, or going into solution.
  4. The quality of being dissolute.
    • He led a life of dissolution, drinking and gambling almost daily.

    Synonyms: dissipation

Origin

From Middle English dissolucioun, from Old French dissolucion, from Latin dissolūtiō (“a dissolving, destroying, breaking up, dissolution”).

Forms

dissolutions

Derived

antidissolution dissolutional dissolutionism dissolutionist double dissolution ego dissolution electrodissolution nondissolution photodissolution predissolution redissolution