dissolution

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌdɪsəˈl(j)uːʃən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˌdɪsəˈluʃən/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -uːʃən

Noun

dissolution (countable and uncountable, plural dissolutions)

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

   Synonyms: abolition, disestablishment

   Antonyms: establishment, foundation

3. Disintegration, or decomposition into fragments.
   • 1822, John Barclay, chapter I, in An Inquiry Into the Opinions, Ancient and Modern, Concerning Life and Organization‎, Edinburgh; London: Bell & Bradfute; Waugh & Innes; G. & W. B. Whittaker, section I, page 2:

     The whole fabric dries up, or becomes putrid; and, in both cases, sooner or later, tends to a dissolution.

   • 2025 March 23, Harmeet Kaur, “How Gamergate foreshadowed the toxic hellscape that the internet has now become”, in CNN‎:

     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.

4. Dissolving, or going into solution.
5. The quality of being dissolute.

   Synonym: dissipation

   He led a life of dissolution, drinking and gambling almost daily.

Derived terms

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

Related terms

English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *lewh₃- (0 c, 30 e)

Translations

termination of an organized body or legislative assembly

Azerbaijani: ləğv (az) Bulgarian: разпускане (bg) n (razpuskane) Catalan: dissolució (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 解散 (zh) (jiěsàn) Czech: rozpuštění n Finnish: hajottaminen (fi) French: dissolution (fr) f Georgian: დაშლა (dašla) German: Auflösung (de) f Greek: Ancient: διάλυσις f (diálusis) Indonesian: pembubaran (id) Japanese: 解体 (ja) (kaitai), 解散 (ja) (kaisan), 廃止 (ja) (haishi) Latin: dissolūtiō f, interitus m Maori: wetekanga Persian: فروپاشی (fa) (forupâši) Polish: rozwiązanie (pl) n Portuguese: dissolução (pt) f Romanian: dizolvare (ro) f Russian: ро́спуск (ru) m (róspusk) (by an outside agent), распа́д (ru) m (raspád) (by itself) Scottish Gaelic: sgaoileadh m Spanish: disolución (es), desintegración (es) f Swedish: upplösning (sv) c Tagalog: pagbuwag, pagkabuwag Tajik: фурӯпошӣ (tg) (furüpoši) Ukrainian: ро́зпуск m (rózpusk)

dissolving, or going into solution

Bulgarian: разтваряне n (raztvarjane) Catalan: dissolució (ca) f Czech: rozpuštění n Finnish: liukeneminen (fi) French: dissolution (fr) f Georgian: დაშლა (dašla) German: Auflösung (de) f Indonesian: pelarutan (id) Maori: memehatanga Middle English: resolucioun, dissolucioun Romanian: dizolvare (ro) f, disoluție (ro) f, descompunere (ro) f Russian: растворе́ние (ru) n (rastvorénije) Swedish: upplösning (sv)

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Further reading

• “dissolution”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
• dissolution on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Latin dissolūtiōnem (accusative of dissolūtiō).

Pronunciation

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Noun

dissolution f (plural dissolutions)

1. dissolution

Further reading

• “dissolution”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.