dissidence

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)

dissidence
    n 1: disagreement; especially disagreement with the government

from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

Dissidence \Dis"si*dence\, n. [L. dissidentia: cf. F.
   dissidence. See {Dissident}, a.]
   Disagreement; dissent; separation from the established
   religion. --I. Taylor.
   [1913 Webster]

         It is the dissidence of dissent.         --Burke.
   [1913 Webster]

from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

79 Moby Thesaurus words for "dissidence":
      aggressiveness, agreement to disagree, alienation, antagonism,
      apostasy, argumentation, bellicosity, belligerence, bickering,
      clashing, combativeness, conflict, contention, contentiousness,
      contradiction, controversy, counter-culture, difference, disaccord,
      disaccordance, disagreement, disapprobation, disapproval, discord,
      discordance, discordancy, discrepancy, disharmony, disparity,
      dissatisfaction, dissension, dissent, dissentience, dissonance,
      disunion, disunity, divergence, diversity, dropping out, faction,
      factiousness, flak, heterodoxy, inaccordance, inequality,
      infighting, irascibility, irritability, jarring, litigiousness,
      minority opinion, misbelief, negation, nonagreement, nonassent,
      nonconcurrence, nonconformism, nonconformity, nonconsent,
      opposition, oppugnancy, partisan spirit, partisanship, pugnacity,
      quarrelsomeness, recusance, recusancy, rejection, repudiation,
      repugnance, schism, secession, shrewishness, strife, underground,
      unharmoniousness, unorthodoxy, variance, withdrawal

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