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Faction
| Faction Definition And Meaning |
What's The Definition Of Faction?
[n] a clique that seeks power usually through intrigue
[n] a dissenting clique
Synonyms | Synonyms for Faction: cabal |
camarilla |
junta |
junto |
sect
Related Terms | Find terms related to Faction: affiliation |
age group |
aggressiveness |
American Party |
antagonism |
Anti-Monopoly Party |
argumentation |
band |
battalion |
bellicosity |
belligerence |
bevy |
bickering |
bloc |
body |
branch |
breakaway group |
brigade |
Bull Moose Party |
bunch |
cabal |
cadre |
camarilla |
camp |
cast |
caucus |
church |
circle |
city hall |
clannishness |
clanship |
clash |
clashing |
clique |
cliqueyness |
cliquishness |
cliquism |
coalition |
cohort |
combativeness |
combine |
communion |
Communist Party |
community |
company |
complement |
conflict |
Conservative Party |
Constitutional Union Party |
contention |
contentiousness |
contingent |
contradiction |
controversy |
corps |
coterie |
covey |
crew |
crowd |
Democratic Party |
Democratic-Republican Party |
denomination |
denominationalism |
detachment |
detail |
difference |
disaccord |
disaccordance |
disagreement |
discord |
discordance |
discordancy |
discrepancy |
disharmony |
disparity |
dissension |
dissent |
dissidence |
dissonance |
disunion |
disunity |
divergence |
diversity |
division |
esprit de corps |
ethnic group |
ethnocentricity |
exclusiveness |
factionalism |
factiousness |
Farmer-Labor Party |
Federalist Party |
fellowship |
flak |
fleet |
Free Soil Party |
gang |
Greenback Party |
group |
grouping |
groupment |
inaccordance |
inequality |
infighting |
in-group |
interest |
interest group |
intrigue |
irascibility |
irritability |
jarring |
junta |
junto |
Know-Nothing Party |
Labour Party |
Liberal Party |
Liberal Republican Party |
Liberty Party |
litigiousness |
lobby |
machine |
major party |
minor party |
minority group |
mob |
movement |
multiple party system |
National Republican Party |
negation |
offshoot |
one-party system |
opposition |
opposition party |
oppugnancy |
order |
organization |
outfit |
out-group |
pack |
part |
partiality |
partisan spirit |
partisanism |
partisanship |
party |
party in power |
party spirit |
peer group |
persuasion |
phalanx |
platoon |
political machine |
political party |
Populist Party |
posse |
pressure group |
Progressive Party |
Prohibition Party |
pugnacity |
quarrelsomeness |
regiment |
religious order |
Republican Party |
repugnance |
rift |
ring |
rupture |
salon |
schism |
school |
sect |
sectarianism |
sectarism |
sectionalism |
sedition |
segment |
set |
shrewishness |
side |
silent majority |
Socialist Labor Party |
Socialist Party |
Socialist Workers Party |
society |
splinter |
splinter group |
splinter party |
split |
squad |
stable |
strife |
string |
Tammany Hall |
team |
third party |
Tory Party |
tribe |
troop |
troupe |
two-party system |
unharmoniousness |
variance |
variety |
version |
vocal minority |
Whig Party |
wing
See Also | camp |
clique |
coterie |
ingroup |
inner circle |
left |
left wing |
old guard |
pack |
pro-choice faction |
pro-life faction |
right |
right wing |
splinter group
Faction In Webster's Dictionary
\Fac"tion\, n. [L. factio a doing, a company of persons
acting together, a faction: cf. F. faction See {Fashion}.]
1. (Anc. Hist.) One of the divisions or parties of
charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games
of the circus.
2. A party, in political society, combined or acting in
union, in opposition to the government, or state; --
usually applied to a minority, but it may be applied to a
majority; a combination or clique of partisans of any
kind, acting for their own interests, especially if
greedy, clamorous, and reckless of the common good.
3. Tumult; discord; dissension.
They remained at Newbury in great faction among
themselves. --Clarendon.
Syn: Combination; clique; junto. See {Cabal}.
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