[
UK
/dˈɪsɪdəns/
]
[ US /ˈdɪsədəns/ ]
[ US /ˈdɪsədəns/ ]
NOUN
- disagreement; especially disagreement with the government
How To Use dissidence In A Sentence
- One can strip the fifties of its illusive aura of dull conformity without inflating cultural dissidence or generational muscle-flexing into political resistance.
- Sex and violence become rites of passage and initiation which, like the new religious practices, produce a historicity of dissidence and dissent.
- Dissident theatre which relied solely on its political dissidence quickly became redundant, and many theatres collapsed. Times, Sunday Times
- Despite this disillusioning experience, there has been hardly any internal dissidence. The Times Literary Supplement
- A living left-wing principle would need to constantly reinvent itself through creative dissidence.
- Some Continental feminists map either the metapsychology of Freud or Lacan onto the culture itself, studying social systems as the competing forces of normalization and dissidence.
- But dissidence in both the parties is likely to tilt the fortunes marginally in Naidu's favour.
- All difference of opinion is construed as dissidence.
- Let's just hope this "clear abuse case" won't serve as a foundation for some new federal legislation that'll broadly hit anything resembling "dissidence" from "undesirables" because it could end up hurting a lot of innocent people. Akismet Blog
- The mountains stand as defiant outposts of tradition yet have also always been the homeland of rebellion, dissidence and resistance.