dissension vs dissent vs dissidents
Definitions
noun
- a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters
- disagreement among those expected to cooperate
Examples
The source of the trouble lies to the north, where it spews its venom throughout the Great Kingdom, breeding dissension as rotten meat breeds maggots.
Amazingly though, their words and thoughts usually lead to yet more dissension, anger and violence.
He was wise and sagacious, but prone to dissension and his spirit was that of calmness under fire.
Definitions
verb
- express opposition through action or words
- withhold assent
- be of different opinions
noun
- a difference of opinion
- the act of protesting; a public (often organized) manifestation of dissent
- (law) the difference of one judge's opinion from that of the majority
Examples
Its political culture, once fiercely democratic, is being eroded by a manipulated, bureaucratic legalism that identifies dissent as disloyalty.
Baffler editors have called commodification of dissent stretches back to Adorno and Horkheimer's Dialectic of Enlightenment and is alive and well in what he calls the "alienation market" in which films like Fahrenheit 9 / 11 either already have or are destined to make bundles (relatively speaking, of course).
Their readings have roots in and derive their stimulus from historical and political schema of dissent outlined in the biblical narratives.
