dissension (n.)
- aggressiveness
- alienation
- altercation
- antagonism
- antipathy
- apostasy
- argument
- argumentation
- bellicosity
- belligerence
- bickering
- collision
- combativeness
- competition
- conflict
- contention
- contentiousness
- contradiction
- contrariety
- contrariness
- controversy
- difference
- disagreement
- disapprobation
- disapproval
- discord
- discordance
- discrepancy
- disharmony
- disparity
- dispute
- dissatisfaction
- dissent
- dissidence
- dissonance
- disunion
- disunity
- divergence
- diversity
- enmity
- faction
- flak
- fractiousness
- friction
- hostility
- inequality
- irascibility
- irritability
- litigiousness
- negation
- negativeness
- nonconformity
- obstinacy
- opposition
- partisanship
- perverseness
- pugnacity
- quarrel
- quarrelsomeness
- recalcitrance
- recusancy
- refractoriness
- rejection
- repudiation
- repugnance
- rivalry
- secession
- shrewishness
- strife
- underground
- variance
- withdrawal
- wrangle
Alas! how light a cause may move
Dissension between hearts that love!
Hearts that the world in vain had tried,
And sorrow but more closely tied;
That stood the storm when waves were rough,
Yet in a sunny hour fall off,
Like ships that have gone down at sea
When heaven was all tranquillity.
