Meaning of DISSIDENCE
| Pronunciation: | | 'disidns
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[n] disagreement; especially disagreement with the government |
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DISSIDENCE is a 10 letter word that starts with D. |
| | See Also: | | disagreement | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Dis"si*dence\, n. [L. dissidentia: cf. F.
dissidence. See {Dissident}, a.]
Disagreement; dissent; separation from the established
religion. --I. Taylor.
It is the dissidence of dissent. --Burke.
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| | Related Terms: | | aggressiveness, agreement to disagree, alienation, antagonism, apostasy, argumentation, bellicosity, belligerence, bickering, clashing, combativeness, conflict, contention, contentiousness, contradiction, controversy, counter-culture, difference, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disapprobation, disapproval, discord, discordance, discordancy, discrepancy, disharmony, disparity, dissatisfaction, dissension, dissent, dissentience, dissonance, disunion, disunity, divergence, diversity, dropping out, faction, factiousness, flak, heterodoxy, inaccordance, inequality, infighting, irascibility, irritability, jarring, litigiousness, minority opinion, misbelief, negation, nonagreement, nonassent, nonconcurrence, nonconformism, nonconformity, nonconsent, opposition, oppugnancy, partisan spirit, partisanship, pugnacity, quarrelsomeness, recusance, recusancy, rejection, repudiation, repugnance, schism, secession, shrewishness, strife, underground, unharmoniousness, unorthodoxy, variance, withdrawal |
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