DISENTANGLEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disentanglement mean? 

• DISENTANGLEMENT (noun)
  The noun DISENTANGLEMENT has 1 sense:

1. the act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition

  Familiarity information: DISENTANGLEMENT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISENTANGLEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of releasing from a snarled or tangled condition

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

disentanglement; extrication; unsnarling; untangling

Hypernyms ("disentanglement" is a kind of...):

freeing; liberation; release (the act of liberating someone or something)

Derivation:

disentangle (smoothen and neaten with or as with a comb)

disentangle (extricate from entanglement)

disentangle (separate the tangles of)

disentangle (release from entanglement of difficulty)

disentangle (free from involvement or entanglement)