dissidence vs dissension
Definitions
noun
- disagreement; especially disagreement with the government
Examples
The level of dissidence is always a function of how tough the regime is.
Dissidence, even active, is not war and the normal criminal and civil codes of law still apply.
Meanwhile, the centre said, a large contingent of People's Armed Police (PAP) has been deployed in Drango County to crush any kind of dissidence and protest.
Definitions
noun
- a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters
- disagreement among those expected to cooperate
Examples
Considerate persons found something of the pathetic in their preoccupation by these trifles while, so clamantly, the dissension between the young King and his uncles gathered to a head: the air was thick with portents; and was this, then, an appropriate time, the judicious demanded of high Heaven, for the Queen of fearful England to concern herself about a peasant's toothache?
Being of an easy and tractable disposition he soon found the fashions of the court, and obtained a general love and notice of the nobility; for he was no carry-tale, nor flattering insinuator to breed discord and dissension, but an honest, plain, downright [man], that would speak home without halting, and tell the truth of purpose to shame the devil -- so that his plainness, mixed with
No questions were allowed and there was no debate, dissension or discouraging words.
