Dis*in`te*gra"tion (?), n.
(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.