Dysfunction
Dysfunction noun - (medicine) any disturbance in the functioning of an organ or body part or a disturbance in the functioning of a social group.
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Failure and dysfunction are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Failure" instead a noun "Dysfunction".
Nearby Word: dysfunctional
Failure
Failure noun - The nonperformance of an assigned or expected action.
Dysfunction and failure are semantically related. You can use "Dysfunction" instead a noun "Failure".
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Dysfunction Junction: One of the main reasons Shingo's quest to overcome his gynophobia is doomed to failure is that every single female he meets is crazy and/or violent.
Source: Manga / Girls Saurus -
A failure to do fix dysfunction in the UN anything even after the Genocide was over and everyone had taken their lumps earned him the ire of the United States, which led an effort to "do him in," in the unfortunate wording of one of the American diplomats responsible.
Source: Useful Notes / United Nations -
However, the problem is an injury can be lethal days later, as the injured person enters Multiple Organ Dysfunction Syndrome, pneumothoracic tension, cardiac tamponade, organ failure, or secondary infection, especially in abdominal injury.
Source: Little Useless Gun
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Failure and Dysfunction. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 29, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/dysfunction/failure
Dysfunction & Failure. N.p., 2016. Web. 29 Jul. 2026. <https://thesaurus.plus/related/dysfunction/failure>.
Failure or Dysfunction. 2016. Accessed July 29, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/dysfunction/failure.
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