Exact Match:
- schism
- division of a group into opposing factions; "another schism like that and they will wind up in bankruptcy"
- the formal separation of a church into two churches or the withdrawal of one group over doctrinal differences
Synonyms:
- affiliation,
- alienation,
- apostasy,
- betrayal,
- body,
- bolt,
- branch,
- breach,
- breach of friendship,
- break,
- breakaway,
- chasm,
- church,
- cleavage,
- cleft,
- communion,
- community,
- defection,
- denomination,
- dereliction,
- deserter,
- desertion,
- disaffection,
- disfavor,
- disruption,
- dissent,
- dissidence,
- disunion,
- disunity,
- divergence,
- dividedness,
- division,
- estrangement,
- faction,
- falling-out,
- fellowship,
- fissure,
- fracture,
- group,
- heterodoxy,
- misbelief,
- nonconformism,
- nonconformity,
- offshoot,
- open rupture,
- order,
- organization,
- party,
- persuasion,
- ratting,
- recall of ambassadors,
- religious order,
- rent,
- rift,
- rupture,
- school,
- secession,
- sect,
- sectarism,
- segment,
- separation,
- society,
- split,
- unorthodoxy,
- variety,
- version,
- walkout