Definitions:

1. a personal or social separation noun
   • The severance between the two sides of the family had lasted for years.
2. an informal shortening of "severance package" noun
   • I had been working there for three years, so they had to give me full severance.
3. the act of severing noun
   • Butchers regularly engage in severance.

Synonyms:

• breach
• severing