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Synonyms and Antonyms of dissension
- religious dissension threatened to split the colony
clash, collision, competition, contention
altercation, argument, bicker, brawl, debate, disagreement, dispute, divide, fissure
falling-out, fight, hassle, jar, miff, mix-up, quarrel, row, run-in, scrap, spat, squabble, tiff, wrangle
incompatibility, incongruence, incongruity, incongruousness, inconsistence, inconsistency, inconsonance, inharmoniousness
animosity, antagonism, antipathy, cold war, enmity, hostility, ill will, rancor
- continued dissension among historians on the exact spot of Columbus's first landing
Synonym Discussion of dissension
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- a political party long racked by discord
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- during his brief reign the empire was never free of civil strife
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- the conflict of freedom and responsibility
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- several points of contention about the new zoning law
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- religious dissension threatened to split the colony
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- cultural variances that work against a national identity
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