abandonment
/əˈbandənm(ə)nt
/noun [mass noun]
The action or fact of abandoning or being abandoned: she had a feeling of utter abandonment and loneliness...
- The meeting may be the only National Hunt racing in Britain this weekend, with abandonments likely elsewhere due to the weather.
- More conservative critics found the root of his decline in his abandonment of religious faith.
- He was rejected and outcast, and like Job, accepted his suffering and abandonment.
Synonyms
desertion, neglect, stranding;
jilting, betrayal
disuse, evacuation, neglect
renunciation, relinquishment, rejection, withdrawal, dropping, cessation, discontinuation, termination, stopping, surrender, dispensation