THESAURUS
withdrawal
Jim Crow, abandonment, abdication, abjuration, abjurement, abolishment, abolition, abrogation, absentation, abstraction, abulia, agreement to disagree, alienation, aloneness, aloofness, anesthesia, annulment, anxiety, anxiety equivalent, anxiety state, apartheid, apartness, apathy, apostasy, autism, autistic thinking, avoidance mechanism, avulsion, backwardness, bashfulness, blame-shifting, blankness, boredom, cancel, canceling, cancellation, carelessness, cassation, casting away, catatonia, catatonic stupor, celibacy, cessation, chill, chilliness, clearance, cold blood, cold heart, coldheartedness, coldness, compensation, compulsion, constraint, coolness, counter-culture, countermand, counterorder, cutting out, deadpan, decampment, decompensation, defeasance, defense mechanism, dejection, demission, denial, departure, deportation, deposal, depression, deracination, dereism, dereistic thinking, desuetude, detachment, difference, disaccord, disagreement, disapprobation, disapproval, disarticulation, disassociation, disavowal, discard, disclaimer, disclamation, disconnectedness, disconnection, discontinuity, discreetness, discretion, disengagement, disentanglement, disinterest, disinterestedness, disjointing, disjunction, dislocation, disowning, disownment, disparity, dispassion, dispassionateness, displacement, disposal, disposition, dissatisfaction, dissension, dissent, dissentience, dissidence, dissociation, distance, disunion, disuse, diversity, division, divorce, divorcement, drawing, drawing out, dredging, drilling, dropping out, dullness, egress, ejection, elation, elimination, emeritus status, emotional deadness, emotional insulation, emotionalism, emotionlessness, enucleation, eradication, escape, escape into fantasy, escape mechanism, escapism, euphoria, evacuation, evolvement, evulsion, excavation, excision, exile, exit, exodus, expatriation, expression, expressionlessness, expulsion, exsection, extirpation, extraction, extrication, fallback, fantasizing, fantasy, flight, folie du doute, forced resignation, forsaking, forswearing, frigidity, frostiness, getaway, going, guardedness, heartlessness, heedlessness, hegira, hypochondria, hysteria, hysterics, iciness, immovability, impassibility, impassiveness, impassivity, impersonality, inaccessibility, incoherence, incuriosity, incuriousness, indifference, indifferentism, indifferentness, inexcitability, insensibility, insouciance, intellectual inertia, introversion, invalidation, isolation, isolationism, jettison, jettisoning, keeping apart, lack of affect, lack of feeling, lack of interest, lack of touch, leaving, lethargy, liquidation, listlessness, loneliness, loneness, lonesomeness, luxation, mania, melancholia, mental distress, mining, minority opinion, modesty, moving apart, negativism, nonagreement, nonassent, nonconcurrence, nonconformity, nonconsent, nullification, objectivity, obsession, obtuseness, opposition, ostracism, outlawing, outlawry, overcompensation, palinode, palinody, parting, partition, passing, passionlessness, pathological indecisiveness, poker face, preoccupation, pressing out, privacy, privatism, privatization, projection, psychalgia, psychomotor disturbance, psychotaxis, pullback, pulling, pulling out, pullout, purge, quarantine, quarrying, rationalization, recall, recantation, recedence, receding, recess, recession, reclusion, reculade, recusance, recusancy, regardlessness, rejection, relinquishment, remoteness, removal, renege, reneging, renouncement, renunciation, repeal, repression, repudiation, rescinding, rescindment, rescission, reserve, reservedness, resignation, resistance, restraint, reticence, reticency, retiral, retirement, retractation, retractility, retraction, retreat, retrocedence, reversal, revocation, revoke, revokement, riddance, ripping out, rustication, secession, seclusion, secrecy, segmentation, segregation, self-absorption, separateness, separation, separatism, sequestration, setting aside, severance, single blessedness, sociological adjustive reactions, solitariness, solitude, soullessness, spiritlessness, splendid isolation, squeezing out, standoffishness, stolidity, straight face, stupor, subdivision, sublimation, substitution, subtraction, superannuation, suppression, suspension, throwing overboard, tic, twitching, unaffability, unapproachability, unconcern, uncongeniality, undemonstrativeness, underground, unemotionalism, unexcitability, unexpansiveness, unfeeling, unfeelingness, unimpressibility, unimpressionableness, uninquisitiveness, uninterestedness, unmindfulness, unpassionateness, unresponsiveness, unrooting, unsaying, unsusceptibility, unsympatheticness, untouchability, uprooting, vacation, vacatur, variance, voidance, voiding, voluntary resignation, waiver, waiving, walkout, wish-fulfillment fantasy, wishful thinking, withdrawment, withdrawnness, wresting out, write-off, zoning
ROGET THESAURUS
withdrawal
Tergiversation
N
tergiversation, change of mind, change of intention, change of purpose, afterthought, tergiversation, recantation, palinode, palinody, renunciation, abjuration, abjurement, defection, going over, apostasy, retraction, retractation,
withdrawal, disavowal, revocation, revokement, reversal, repentance, redintegratio amoris, coquetry, vacillation, backsliding, volte-face, turn coat, turn tippet, rat, apostate, renegade, convert, pervert, proselyte, deserter, backslider, blackleg, crawfish, scab, mugwump, recidivist, time server, time pleaser, timist, Vicar of Bray, trimmer, ambidexter, weathercock, Janus, changeful, irresolute, ductile, slippery as an eel, trimming, ambidextrous, timeserving, coquetting, revocatory, reactionary, a change came o'er the spirit of my dream.
Relinquishment
N
relinquishment, abandonment, desertion, defection, secession,
withdrawal, cave of Adullam, nolle prosequi, discontinuance, renunciation, abrogation, resignation, desuetude, cession, unpursued, relinquished, relinquishing, Int, avast!, aufgeschoben ist nicht aufgehoben, entbehre gern was du nicht hast, relinquishment, abandonment, renunciation, expropriation, dereliction, cession, surrender, dispensation, quitclaim deed, resignation, riddance, derelict, foundling, jetsam, waif, discards, culls, rejects, garbage, refuse, rubbish, relinquished, cast off, derelict, unowned, unappropriated, unculled, left, Int, away with!.
Subtraction
N
nonaddition, subtraction, subtraction, subduction, deduction, retrenchment, removal,
withdrawal, ablation, sublation, abstraction, garbling mutilation, detruncation, amputation, abscission, excision, recision, curtailment, minuend, subtrahend, decrease, abrasion, subtracted, subtractive, in deduction, less, short of, minus, without, except, except for, excepting, with the exception of, barring, save, exclusive of, save and except, with a reservation, not counting, if one doesn't count.
Taking
N
taking, reception, deglutition, appropriation, prehension, prensation, capture, caption, apprehension, deprehension, abreption, seizure, expropriation, abduction, ablation, subtraction,
withdrawal, abstraction, ademption, adrolepsy, dispossession, deprivation, deprivement, bereavement, divestment, disherison, distraint, distress, sequestration, confiscation, eviction, rapacity, rapaciousness, extortion, vampirism, theft, resumption, reprise, reprisal, recovery, clutch, swoop, wrench, grip, haul, take, catch, scramble, taker, captor, subduction, taking, privative, prehensile, predaceous, predal, predatory, predatorial, lupine, rapacious, raptorial, ravenous, parasitic, bereft, at one fell swoop, give an inch and take an ell.
Regression
N
regress, regression, retrocession, retrogression, retrograduation, retroaction, reculade, retreat,
withdrawal, retirement, remigration, recession, recess, crab-like motion, refluence, reflux, backwater, regurgitation, ebb, return, resilience reflection, reflexion (recoil), flip-flop, volte-face, counter motion, retrograde motion, backward movement, motion in reverse, counter movement, counter march, veering, tergiversation, recidivation, backsliding, fall, deterioration, recidivism, recidivity, reversal, relapse, turning point, receding, retrograde, retrogressive, regressive, refluent, reflex, recidivous, resilient, crab-like, balky, reactionary, back, backwards, reflexively, to the right about, a reculons, a rebours, revenons a nos moutons, as you were.
Recession
N
recession, retirement,
withdrawal, retreat, retrocession, departure, recoil, flight, receding, distance oneself from a person.