disentanglement
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: 1.40 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
15
Letters
5
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Removal of, or extrication from, twists, tangles, complications or confusion.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "With most women his manner was a mixture of taciturnity and passion. The lengthy approaches to a seduction bored him almost as much as the subsequent mess of disentanglement. He found something grisly in the inevitability of the pattern of each affair."
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin dis- Old French des-bor. Latin dis-bor. Middle English dis- English dis- Middle English entanglen English entangle Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥ Proto-Indo-European *-mn̥tom Proto-Italic *-mentom Latin -mentum Old French -mentbor. Middle English -ment English -ment English entanglement English disentanglement From dis- + entanglement.