dissolution
The termination of an organized body or legislative assembly, especially a formal dismissal.
Other meanings
Disintegration, or decomposition into fragments.
Dissolving, or going into solution.
Related words
- antidissolution
- dissolutional
- dissolutionism
- dissolutionist
- electrodissolution
- nondissolution
- photodissolution
- predissolution
- redissolution
- ego dissolution
- double dissolution
Word history
From Latin "dissolūtiō" (a dissolving, destroying, breaking up, dissolution).
Where this comes from
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