Severance vs Parting - What's the difference?
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The act of severing or the state of being severed.
A separation.
A severance payment.
The act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; division; separation.
* Bible, Ezekiel xxi. 21
A farewell, the act of departing politely.
* Byron
* 1900 , L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Chapter 23
(British) The dividing line formed by combing the hair in different directions; part (US )
(founding) The surface of the sand of one section of a mould where it meets that of another section.
(chemistry) The separation and determination of alloys; especially, the separation, as by acids, of gold from silver in the assay button.
(geology) A joint or fissure, as in a coal seam.
(nautical) The breaking, as of a cable, by violence.
(mineralogy) Lamellar separation in a crystallized mineral, due to some other cause than cleavage, as to the presence of twinning lamellae.
(Webster 1913)
Severance is a related term of parting.
As nouns the difference between severance and parting
is that severance is the act of severing or the state of being severed while parting is the act of parting or dividing; the state of being parted; division; separation.As a verb parting is
.severance
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Alternative forms
* severaunceNoun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (separation) separation * (severance payment) severance payment, severance payparting
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Noun
(en noun)- The parting of the way.
- And there were sudden partings ,such as press / The life from out young hearts.
- But she hugged the soft, stuffed body of the Scarecrow in her arms instead of kissing his painted face, and found she was crying herself at this sorrowful parting from her loving comrades.