Other forms: disruptions
Disruption is a serious break in the normal course of things. Nothing is running as it should.
Transport uses it constantly, and severe disruption is the standard phrase in a rail announcement, which usually means the day is ruined. The word carries no blame in that use. Business took it over completely in the last thirty years and made it a compliment, since a disruptive company is one that upends an industry, and disruption became something to aim at. Those two senses now sit awkwardly side by side.
1noundisruptionA serious interruption to the normal running of something.
“There was major disruption on the line all morning.”
2nounradicalRadical change that upends an existing industry.
“The whole sector is braced for disruption.”
Proto-Indo-European
*Hrewp-
Latin
disruptionem
English, today
disruption
From Latin disruptionem, from disrumpere. by surface analysis, disrupt + -ion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA