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dissidence

[ dis-i-duh ns ]

/ ˈdɪs ɪ dəns /

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noun

disagreement: political dissidence.

Origin of dissidence

1650–60; < Latin dissidentia, equivalent to dissid- (see dissident) + -entia -ence

synonym study for dissidence

See dissent.

OTHER WORDS FROM dissidence

non·dis·si·dence, noun

Words nearby dissidence

dissertate, dissertation, disserve, disservice, dissever, dissidence, dissident, dissidents, dissilient, dissimilar, dissimilarity

Example sentences from the Web for dissidence

But why would a group of hackers who pride themselves on dissidence develop such a conscience?

Anonymous’s Next Move |Winston Ross |April 17, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
Most of them are still in prison, and even the most timid signs of dissidence are relentlessly snuffed out.

Bernard-Henri Lévy on Mansour Osanloo and Regime Change in Iran |Bernard-Henri Lévy |March 5, 2013 |DAILY BEAST
That is how St. Paul describes the dissidence of dissent, as it was known to him by grievous experience.

The Expositor's Bible: The Pastoral Epistles |Alfred Plummer
So much is said nowadays about the dissidence of the spiritual and intellectual worlds.

Memoirs of Arthur Hamilton, B. A. Of Trinity College, Cambridge |Arthur Christopher Benson

The dulness of unquestioning undiscriminating belief was disturbed by the freshening breezes of dissidence and discussion.

The Eighteen Christian Centuries |James White
He evidently understood neither the "dissidence of dissent" nor the Anglicanism of the Anglican Communion.

William the Third |H. D. Traill
This is the just and honourable ground of that dissidence of feeling on the part of Talleyrand that culminated in desertion.

Talleyrand |Joseph McCabe