0 a situation in which a group forms within a larger group, especially one with slightly different ideas from the main group: --
We want to rid the movement of factionalism.
Factionalism was tearing the party and the country apart.
She mourns the tolerant, cosmopolitan city of her youth and decries the factionalism that led to its ruin.
Factionalism drew the group ever more deeply into petty gripes and grievances.
The country could collapse into factionalism and civil war.
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European
May 10, 2021
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Shimmer
factionalism