Dissidence

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Dissidence \Dis"si*dence\, n. [L. dissidentia: cf. F.
     dissidence. See {Dissident}, a.]
     Disagreement; dissent; separation from the established
     religion. --I. Taylor.
     [1913 Webster]
  


           It is the dissidence of dissent.         --Burke.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  dissidence
       n : disagreement; especially disagreement with the government

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  79 Moby Thesaurus words for "dissidence":
     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