schism
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
- Word type
- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
- Line style
- core relation
- instance, member or derived
- substance, domain or see-also
- Direction
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
division of a group into opposing factions
another schism like that and they will wind up in bankruptcy
Types & categories
- division hypernym
Related & opposite
- part derivation
- part derivation
- schismatic derivation
Sense 2 noun
the formal separation of a church into two churches or the withdrawal of one group over doctrinal differences
Types & categories
- severance hypernym
- Great Schism instance hyponym
Related & opposite
- schismatic derivation
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
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| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | part |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | part |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | schismatic |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | division |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | schismatic |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | severance |
| 2 | instance hyponym | Types & categories | Great Schism |