different between dissolution vs undoing

English

Etymology

From Old French dissolution, from Latin dissol?ti? (“a dissolving, destroying, breaking up, dissolution”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?d?s??l(j)u???n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?d?s??lu??n/
• Rhymes: -u???n

Noun

dissolution (countable and uncountable, plural dissolutions)

1. The termination of an organized body or legislative assembly, especially a formal dismissal.

   Synonym: abolition

   Antonyms: establishment, foundation

2. Disintegration, or decomposition into fragments.
3. Dissolving, or going into solution.
4. The quality of being dissolute.

   Synonym: dissipation

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Translations

Further reading

• “dissolution”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.
• dissolution on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

French

Etymology

From Latin dissol?ti?nem (accusative of dissol?ti?).

Pronunciation

Noun

dissolution f (plural dissolutions)

1. dissolution

Further reading

• “dissolution” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?du???/

Etymology 1

From Middle English undoinge, undoynge, ondoynge; equivalent to undo +? -ing.

Noun

undoing (plural undoings)

1. The act of loosening or unfastening
2. Ruin; defeat, (also) that which causes defeat or ruin.

   His fatal flaw was his undoing. In a sense he defeated himself.

   • 1912, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Tarzan of the Apes, Chapter 5:

     So far as the ape was concerned, Sabor reasoned correctly. The little fellow crouched trembling just an instant, but that instant was quite long enough to prove his undoing.
3. Annulment; reversal

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English undoynge, undoand, from Old English und?nde (“undoing”), from Proto-Germanic *andad?ndz, present participle of *andad?n? (“to undo”). Cognate with Dutch ontdoend (“undoing”).

Verb

undoing

1. present participle of undo

Anagrams

• ounding