Synonyms for parting
ˈpɑr tɪŋpart·ing

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1. parting

   Synonyms:
   separation, detachment, division, disruption

   Antonyms:
   union, attachment, cleaving together

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1. farewell, leave, leave-taking, partingnoun

   the act of departing politely

   "he disliked long farewells"; "he took his leave"; "parting is such sweet sorrow"

   Synonyms:
   leave-taking, leave, word of farewell, part, leave of absence, farewell

2. part, partingnoun

   a line of scalp that can be seen when sections of hair are combed in opposite directions

   "his part was right in the middle"

   Synonyms:
   contribution, farewell, division, component, role, constituent, share, function, percentage, portion, part, section, voice, piece, office, character, theatrical role, leave, region, leave-taking, component part, persona

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1. partingnoun

   Synonyms:
   breaking, rupture, disruption, severing, tearing asunder

2. partingnoun

   Synonyms:
   separation, detachment

3. partingnoun

   Synonyms:
   leave-taking

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1. partingadjective

   Synonyms:
   farewell, valedictory

2. partingnoun

   Synonyms:
   division, disunion, severance, separation, leave-taking, farewell

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1. List of paraphrases for "parting":

   farewell, separation

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How to use parting in a sentence?

1. John Dingell:

   One of the advantages to knowing that your demise is imminent, and that reports of it will not be greatly exaggerated, is that you have a few moments to compose some parting thoughts, in our modern political age, the presidential bully pulpit seems dedicated to sowing division and denigrating, often in the most irrelevant and infantile personal terms, the political opposition.

2. Princess Elizabeth Asquith Bibesco:

   'It is never good dwelling on good-byes,' she said. 'It is not the being together that it prolongs, it is the parting.'

3. Tryon Edwards:

   Every parting is a form of death, as every reunion is a type of heaven.

4. Emily Elizabeth Dickinson:

   Parting is all we know of heaven and all we need of hell.

5. Colley Cibber:

   We shall find no fiend in hell can match the fury of a disappointed woman,scorned, slighted, dismissed without a parting pang.