Synonyms of the word

apostasy

• n. The renunciation of a belief or set of beliefs.
• n. Specifically, the renunciation of one's religion or faith.

abandonment

• n. The act of abandoning, or the state of being abandoned; total desertion; relinquishment.
• n. The voluntary leaving of a person to whom one is bound by a special relation, as a wife, husband or child;…
• n. An abandoned building or structure.
• n. (law) The relinquishment of a right, claim, or privilege; relinquishment of right to secure a patent by…
• n. (law) The relinquishment by the insured to the underwriters of what may remain of the property insured…
• n. The cessation of service on a particular segment of the lines of a common carrier, as granted by a government…
• n. A refusal to receive freight so damaged in transit as to be worthless and render carrier liable for its…
• n. The self-surrender to an outside influence.
• n. Abandon; careless freedom or ease; surrender to one's emotions.

defection

• n. an act or incidence of defecting.

desertion

• n. The act of deserting.

forsaking

• v. present participle of forsake.
• n. The act by which somebody is forsaken; an abandonment.

rejection

• n. The act of rejecting.
• n. The state of being rejected.
• n. (sports) A blocked shot.

renunciation

• n. the act of rejecting or renouncing something as invalid.
• n. the resignation of an ecclesiastical office.

tergiversation

• n. The act of abandoning something or someone, of changing sides; desertion; betrayal.
• n. The act of evading any clear course of action or speech, of being deliberately ambiguous; equivocation;…