From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dissidence \Dis"si*dence\, noun [L. dissidentia: cf. F. dissidence. See {Dissident}, adjective] Disagreement; dissent; separation from the established religion. --I. Taylor.
It is the dissidence of dissent. --Burke.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: disagreement; especially disagreement with the government
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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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