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Definition of abandonment : 1. Careless freedom or ease; abandon.
2. The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.
3. The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured after a loss or damage by a peril insured against.
4. The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege, as to mill site, etc.
5. The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband, or child; desertion.

Synonyms:

quitclaim, wantonness, giving up, waiver, abandon, keep, wildness, demission, unrestraint, incontinence, restraint, forsaking

desert, emptiness, bleakness, barrenness, inhospitability, starkness, loneliness

acceptance, retirement

obsoleteness, disuse, refusal, rejection, rustiness, desuetude

dispiritedness, spiritlessness, heartlessness, forlornness, misery, desperation, anguish, gloominess, despondency, cheerlessness, glumness, depression, discouragement, dejection, melancholy, moroseness, pessimism, despair, hopelessness, downheartedness, disheartenment

closure, stoppage, ending, pause, halt, hiatus, termination, standstill, interruption, stay, cessation, discontinuance, end

dismissal, relegation, riddance, disposal, cancellation

exit, embarkation, exodus, leave-taking, parting, departure

betrayal, abnegation, renouncement, crossing, disavowal, retractation, about-face, backsliding, turnabout

disallowance, expulsion, blackballing, disapproval, ejection, curtailment, repudiation, denial, exclusion, elimination, eradication, blacklisting

dereliction, release, renunciation, disclamation, capitulation

desertion, apostasy, vacation, relinquishment, tergiversation, resignation, defection, surrender, discontinuation, abdication, withdrawal

Usage examples:

• A sudden wave of abandonment seemed to have swept over her.
• At any rate, then, Mr. Gilman had not been utterly estranged by her capricious abandonment of him. - "The Lion's Share", E. Arnold Bennett.
• It seems as if, the train of thoughts once forcibly interrupted, a return to reason and an abandonment of fixed ideas become possible. - "Modern Magic", Maximilian Schele de Vere.