Disagreement or conflict, especially within a group or organization; discord.
From Latin dissentio (dis- 'apart' + sentire 'to feel'), with the noun-forming suffix -tion. This variant spelling emphasizes the act or state of disagreeing rather than the individual act.
Dissention appears frequently in historical documents about revolutions and political movements—it's the word used to describe the internal cracks that sometimes bring down empires from within rather than from external attack.
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