noun, noun or participle which takes 'suru', intransitive verb
meeting and parting; alliance and rupture
Literary or formal term for the cycle of coming together and separating, used for human relationships, alliances, or abstract unions. Often appears in set phrases like 離合集散.
人生は離合の繰り返しだ。
Life is a repetition of meetings and partings.
政党の離合集
The political parties keep forming and breaking alliances.