disintegration
Noun
Meaning
The process by which anything is disintegrated; the condition of anything which is disintegrated.
The wearing away or falling to pieces of rocks or strata, produced by atmospheric action, frost, ice, etc.
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Disintegration of structure equals information loss.
Like so many empires before it, the Soviet Union eventually imploded and fragmented, falling victim not so much to a direct military defeat as to disintegration accelerated by economic and social strains.
Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.
In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive log past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.
Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.
With the disintegration of all that [Nietzsche] had revered, existence, to him, had become a desert in which only one thing remained, namely that which had relentlessly forced him into this path: truthfulness that knows no limits and is not subject to any condition.