splitting

plural splittings

1. countableuncountableAn instance where something splits.
2. countableuncountablehuman sciencesA division in the mind, or affecting one's sense of self.

   In other words, something troubling, such as being discovered in the toilets in a shaming way, can be both remembered and also pushed to the periphery of consciousness, a process that psychotherapists refer to as ‘splitting’.

   2007, Brett Kahr, Sex and the Psyche, Penguin, published 2008, page 308

3. countableuncountablechemistryThe cleavage of a covalent bond.

comparative more splitting · superlative most splitting

1. Resembling the sound of something being split or ripped.
2. Very rapid.

   They moved at a splitting pace.

3. Severely painful.

   I have a splitting headache.

1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of split