departure (n.)

• aberrancy
• aberration
• absence
• absenteeism
• annihilation
• bane
• bend
• bias
• blackout
• blocking
• bypath
• byway
• contrariety
• contrast
• corner
• crook
• curve
• cut
• death
• decampment
• decease
• declination
• default
• deflection
• demise
• detour
• deviance
• deviation
• deviousness
• difference
• digression
• disagreement
• disappearance
• disappearing
• discordance
• discrepancy
• discreteness
• disparity
• dispersion
• dissent
• dissimilarity
• dissipation
• dissolution
• dissolving
• dissonance
• distinction
• distinctness
• divagation
• divarication
• divergence
• divergency
• diversion
• diversity
• dogleg
• doom
• double
• drift
• drifting
• dying
• eclipse
• egress
• egression
• elimination
• end
• ending
• episode
• erasure
• errantry
• escape
• evanescence
• evaporation
• excursion
• excursus
• exit
• exodus
• expiration
• extinction
• extraction
• fadeout
• fading
• farewell
• flight
• furlough
• going
• grave
• hairpin
• heterogeneity
• holiday
• hooky
• incompatibility
• incongruity
• inconsistency
• indirection
• inequality
• inharmoniousness
• knell
• leave
• leave-taking
• leaving
• melting
• mixture
• nonappearance
• nonattendance
• nonconformity
• obliquity
• occultation
• odds
• opposition
• otherness
• outcome
• outgo
• parting
• passing
• quietus
• rambling
• release
• rest
• retreat
• reward
• separateness
• shift
• shifting
• sidetrack
• slant
• sleep
• sweep
• swerve
• swerving
• swinging
• tack
• truancy
• turn
• turning
• twist
• unlikeness
• unorthodoxy
• vacation
• vanishing
• variance
• variation
• variegation
• variety
• wandering
• warp
• wipe
• withdrawal
• yaw
• zigzag