disconnection

Noun

• the act of breaking a connection

• an unbridgeable disparity (as from a failure of understanding)
  • he felt a gulf between himself and his former friends
    
  • there is a vast disconnect between public opinion and federal policy
    

• state of being disconnected

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  disjunction , gulf , disconnect , disjuncture , disconnectedness
• Antonyms: 
  connection , link , connectedness