Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun Difference of opinion; disagreement. synonym: conflict.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Disagreement in opinion; especially, violent disagreement which produces warm debate or angry words; contention in words; strife; discord; quarrel; breach of friendship or union.
  • noun Synonyms -Difference, dispute, variance.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Disagreement in opinion, usually of a violent character, producing warm debates or angry words; contention in words; partisan and contentious divisions; breach of friendship and union; strife; discord; quarrel.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun An act of expressing dissent, especially spoken.
  • noun Strong disagreement; a contention or quarrel; discord.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters
  • noun disagreement among those expected to cooperate

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Middle English dissencioun, from Old French dissension, from Latin dissēnsiō, dissēnsiōn-, from dissēnsus, past participle of dissentīre, to dissent; see dissent.]

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