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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Disintegration \Dis*in'te*gra"tion\, noun (a) The process by which anything is disintegrated; the condition of anything which is disintegrated. Specifically (b) (Geol.) The wearing away or falling to pieces of rocks or strata, produced by atmospheric action, frost, ice, etc.
Society had need of further disintegration before it could begin to reconstruct itself locally. --Motley.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
disintegration
noun
1: in a decomposed state [syn: {decomposition}]
2: separation into component parts [syn: {dissolution}]
3: the spontaneous disintegration of a radioactive substance along with the emission of ionizing radiation [syn: {decay}, {radioactive decay}]
4: total destruction; "bomb tests resulted in the annihilation of the atoll" [syn: {annihilation}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
145 Moby Thesaurus words for "disintegration": abrasion, amiable weakness, atomization, attrition, beating, biodegradability, biodegradation, bloodbath, blue ruin, breakability, breakup, brecciation, brittleness, carnage, changeableness, collapse, comminution, consumption, corrosion, corruption, crack-up, crumbling, crushing, daintiness, damnation, deactivation, decay, decimation, decomposition, degradability, degradation, delicacy, demobilization, depredation, derangement, desolation, despoilment, despoliation, destructibility, destruction, detachment, detrition, devastation, diaspora, diffusion, dilapidation, disarrangement, disarray, disarticulation, disbandment, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertedness, disharmony, dishevelment, disjunction, dismissal, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, dispersal, dispersion, disproportion, disruption, dissolution, disturbance, effeminacy, entropy, exfoliation, flimsiness, fragility, fragmentation, frailty, frangibility, granulation, granulization, grating, grinding, haphazardness, havoc, hecatomb, holocaust, human frailty, incoherence, indecisiveness, indiscriminateness, infirmity of will, inharmonious harmony, inherent vice, irregularity, irresolution, levigation, lightness, mashing, mildew, mold, moral weakness, most admired disorder, nonsymmetry, nonuniformity, oxidation, oxidization, parting, perdition, perturbation, pounding, powdering, promiscuity, promiscuousness, randomness, ravage, release, resolution, revolution, ruin, ruination, rust, scaling, scattering, separation, shambles, shattering, shredding, slaughter, sleaziness, slightness, smashing, split-up, spoilage, spoliation, trituration, turbulence, undoing, unsubstantiality, unsymmetry, ununiformity, upset, vandalism, velleity, waste, wispiness, womanishness, wrack, wrack and ruin, wreck
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