discontinuity
dis kon ti nooh i tee
- n lack of connection or continuity
- A panel of ministers and lay elders declared that a gay minister would "act in discontinuity with deeply rooted understanding of the Scripture.
- In fact, Idei himself represented a discontinuity with Sony's past.
- The moral rebirth of Germany after the war was, and is, premised on a radical discontinuity with the Nazi past.