Synonyms for
Faction
Definition
a group within a larger group that has different ideas and opinions than the rest of the group
Synonyms & similar words
Synonyms by register
Antonyms
Common collocations
- political faction
- ruling faction
- minority faction
- powerful faction
- breakaway faction
- internal faction
- factional dispute
- factionalism
Word family
Usage note
A faction typically refers to a dissenting or subgroup within a larger group, often with a political or ideological basis. It can sometimes carry a negative connotation of divisiveness.
Example sentences
- The faction of students who wanted to have recess twice a day formed their own club.
- In the game, players can join different factions that have different goals.
- The factionalism within the political party led to a split in the organization.
- The two factions of the company's employees had different ideas about how to run the business.
- The city council was divided into factions that disagreed on how to improve the local economy.
Quotes
'It is the nature of human beings to seek freedom. Subjugation is not in our nature. It is the nature of tyranny to create factions.' - Franklin D. Roosevelt
'I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe... Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men and become the instruments of their own undoing.' - Daniel Webster
'The alternate domination of one faction over another, sharpened by the spirit of revenge, natural to party dissension, which in different ages and countries has perpetrated the most horrid enormities, is itself a frightful despotism.' - George Washington