1. the act of disjoining or the condition of being disjoined; separation or split.
2. a lack of coherence; inconsistency.
Main Example
Many Iraqis used to regard Saddam Hussein as being a "lion" and someone who would "only go down fighting." So, his supporters must have felt tortured by the disjunction between that reputation and the way Saddam actually surrendered--meekly and without firing a shot despite the guns in his possession.
Workplace Examples
You often hear John lecturing other managers about the benefits of camaraderie and a more collegial environment, yet he runs his own department pretty autocratically. I wonder if he ever agonizes over that disjunction.
One reason why I am not comfortable in my job is the disjunction between my personal goals and what the company wants of me.
Other Examples
while critiquing somebody's presentation, your saying: "Beth, I noticed an occasional disjunction between your words and your hand gestures. For instance, when you emphasized the steady rise in your department's productivity, your hands moved horizontally instead of vertically."
the recent folding up of the cash-starved U.S. women's professional soccer league, thanks to the disjunction between women's love for playing soccer and people's love for watching them play
at a national conference on education, then-IBM CEO Louis Gerstner exhorting high school principals to help remove the disjunction between school curriculum and the skills actually required by employers
in a TV interview, Harvard Business School's Lynn Paine blaming the problems at Enron on the lack of ethics oversight regarding management's reward structuring, a situation which lead to a disjunction between the company's "rewards system track" and the "ethics track"
