apostasy (n.)

• about-face
• accommodation
• adaptation
• adjustment
• alienation
• alteration
• amelioration
• atheism
• backsliding
• betrayal
• betterment
• bolt
• break
• breakaway
• change
• changeableness
• continuity
• conversion
• defection
• degeneration
• dereliction
• deserter
• desertion
• deterioration
• deviation
• difference
• disagreement
• disapprobation
• disapproval
• discontinuity
• disloyalty
• disparity
• dissatisfaction
• dissension
• dissent
• dissidence
• divergence
• diversification
• diversion
• diversity
• faithlessness
• falseness
• fitting
• flip-flop
• impiety
• impiousness
• improvement
• irreligion
• irreverence
• lapse
• melioration
• mitigation
• modification
• modulation
• nonconformity
• opposition
• overthrow
• perfidy
• qualification
• ratting
• re-creation
• recidivism
• recusancy
• reform
• reformation
• rejection
• remaking
• renewal
• renunciation
• repudiation
• reversal
• revival
• revivification
• revolution
• schism
• secession
• shift
• switch
• tergiversation
• transition
• treason
• turn
• turnabout
• underground
• undutifulness
• upheaval
• variance
• variation
• variety
• walkout
• withdrawal
• worsening