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Synonyms for dissension
dɪˈsɛn ʃəndis·sen·sion

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English Synonyms and Antonyms0.0 / 0 votes

  1. dissension

    A feud is enmity between families, clans, or parties, with acts of hostility mutually retaliated and avenged; feud is rarely used of individuals, never of nations. While all the other words of the group may refer to that which is transient, a feud is long-enduring, and often hereditary. Dissension is used of a number of persons, of a party or other organization. Bitterness is in feeling only; enmity and hostility involve will and purpose to oppose or injure. A quarrel is in word or act, or both, and is commonly slight and transient, as we speak of childish quarrels; contention and strife may be in word or deed; contest ordinarily involves some form of action. Contest is often used in a good sense, contention and strife very rarely so. Controversy is commonly in words; strife extends from verbal controversy to the contests of armies. Affray, brawl, and broil, like quarrel, are words of inferior dignity. An affray or broil may arise at a street corner; the affray always involves physical force; the brawl or broil may be confined to violent language.

    Synonyms:
    affray, animosity, bitterness, brawl, broil, contention, contest, controversy, dispute, enmity, feud, fray, hostility, quarrel, strife

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. discord, dissensionnoun

    disagreement among those expected to cooperate

    Synonyms:
    discord, dissonance, disagreement, discordance, strife

  2. disagreement, dissension, dissonancenoun

    a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters

    Synonyms:
    discrepancy, noise, racket, dissonance, discord, variance, disagreement, divergence

Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. dissensionnoun

    Synonyms:
    discord, contention, strife, variance, disagreement, difference, quarrel, breach of friendship

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  1. List of paraphrases for "dissension":

    dissent, discord, sedition, strife, disagreement, disunity

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How to use dissension in a sentence?

  1. H. G. Wells:

    A time will come when a politician who has wilfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with mens lives should not stake their own.

  2. John McCain:

    Today’s indictment is a result of the hard work of America’s law enforcement and intelligence officials who dedicate their lives to bringing to justice those who wish to do us harm, these revelations add to a body of evidence confirming an extensive plot by Vladimir Putin’s government to attack the 2016 election, sow chaos and dissension among the American electorate, and undermine faith in our democracy.

  3. Kirk Limacher:

    United Airlines can not return the unvaccinated pilots to the cockpit because — aside from the various practical problems with testing and masking — we would face serious and widespread objections from the vaccinated pilots, in fact the objections among our vaccinated pilots are so strongly held that many of them would simply refuse to fly with the accommodated pilots. The distractions and dissension this would cause in the workforce represent an unacceptable safety risk.

  4. Primo Levi:

    In order for the wheel to turn, for life to be lived, impurities are needed, and the impurities of impurities in the soil, too, as is known, if it is to be fertile. Dissension, diversity, the grain of salt and mustard are needed: Fascism does not want them, forbids them, and that's why you're not a Fascist; it wants everybody to be the same, and you are not. But immaculate virtue does not exist either, or if it exists it is detestable.

  5. Euripides:

    In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side.


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