The quality or state of being factious; a tendency to cause or characterized by conflict, disagreement, and division.
From factious + -ness (suffix forming abstract nouns). Parallel formation to other -ness nouns describing character traits.
When political scientists diagnose 'factiousness' in a government, they're describing a fundamental problem — people have stopped trying to work together and instead treat politics as tribal warfare.
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