1. The cutting off; the being cut off; severance. The separation of any soft part of the body by a sharp instrument. An abrupt breaking off in the midst of a sentence, thus: "He is a man of so much honour and of such generosity-but I need say no more." See Abscind.

Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language By Nuttall, P.Austin

• descission,
• absession,
• absconsion,
• zbscission,
• sbscission,
• wbscission,
• qbscission,
• avscission,
• anscission,
• ahscission,
• absission,
• abscision,
• abcession,
• abscesion,
• abscison,
• Abscicion,
• abstrussion,
• scissione,
• absiccision,
• absicision

• abscess,
• abscissa,
• abscise.

The adjective form of "abscission" is "abscissive".

The plural of the "abscission" can be the "abscissions".

The singular of the "abscission" can be the "abscission".