dissension

Noun

Meaning

Disagreement in opinion, usually of a violent character, producing warm debates or angry words; contention in words; partisan and contentious divisions; breach of friendship and union; strife; discord; quarrel.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

disagreement discord dissonance division heresy difference fight conflict opposition debate argument controversy warfare dispute arguing
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Antonyms

union concord amity alliance harmonics nexus
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Hypernyms

conflict disagreement

Hyponyms

division divide variance confrontation disunity

Phrases with the word

sow dissension sow dissension among arianism dissension

Examples

Abu Bakr felt that he should nominate his successor so that the issue should not be a cause of dissension among the Muslims after his death, though there was already controversy over Ali not having been appointed. Source: Internet

As the Bulgars had been raiding Byzantine lands since 976, the Byzantine government sought to cause dissension amongst them by allowing the escape of their captive emperor Boris II of Bulgaria. Source: Internet

Fiscal motivation for secession The issues of political dissension between Saint Kitts and Nevis are often centred around perceptions of imbalance in the economic structure. Source: Internet

Dabbalemi was able to suppress this tendency, but after his death, dissension among his sons weakened the Sayfawa Dynasty. Source: Internet

Gladstone, says his biographer, "totally rejected the widespread English view that the Irish had no taste for justice, common sense, moderation our national prosperity and looked only to perpetual strife and dissension". Source: Internet

He unwittingly caused much internal dissension from early on. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

disseminative disseminator disseminule dissensious dissensual dissensus