Distributing dingiest share, showing loss of cohesion (14)
I believe the answer is:
disintegration
'loss of cohesion' is the definition.
The answer and definition can be both states of affairs as well as being singular nouns.
Maybe there's a link between them I don't understand?
'distributing dingiest share' is the wordplay.
'distributing' indicates an anagram.
'share' becomes 'ration' (a ration is a share of a limited resource).
'dingiest' is an anagram of 'disinteg'.
'disinteg'+'ration'='DISINTEGRATION'
'showing' is the link.
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for disintegration that I've seen before include "Falling apart" , "Process of breaking up" .)