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Faction vs Multifactional - What's the difference?

faction | multifactional |

As a noun faction

is a group of people, especially within a political organization, which expresses a shared belief or opinion different from people who are not part of the group.

As an adjective multifactional is

of or pertaining to more than one faction.

faction

English

(wikipedia faction)

Etymology 1

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Noun

(en noun)
  • A group of people, especially within a political organization, which expresses a shared belief or opinion different from people who are not part of the group.
  • *
  • Strife; discord.
  • * 1805 , Johann Georg Cleminius, Englisches Lesebuch für Kaufleute , pg. 188:
    • Publick [sic] affairs soon fell into the utmost confusion, and in this state of faction and perplexity, the island continued, until its re-capture by the French in 1779.
  • * 2001 , Odd Magne Bakke, "Concord and Peace": A Rhetorical Analysis of the First Letter of Clement With an Emphasis on the Language of Unity and Sedition , publ. Mohr Siebeck, ISBN 3161476379, pg. 89:
    • He asks the audience if they believe that they will be more loved by the gods if the city is in a state of faction than if they govern the city with good order and concord.
    Derived terms
    * factional * factionalize
    Related terms
    * -faction * fact * factor * factorial * factory * fashion

    See also

    * splinter group

    Etymology 2

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    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A form of literature, film etc., that treats real people or events as if they were fiction; a mix of fact and fiction
    • Related terms
    * fact * fiction
    See also
    * (Non-fiction novel) ----

    multifactional

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of or pertaining to more than one faction.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2008, date=April 19, author=Michael Cooper, title=McCain, Iraq War and the Threat of ‘Al Qaeda’, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=The current situation in Iraq should properly be described as “a multifactional civil war” in which “the government is composed of rival Shia factions” and “they are embattled with an outside Shia group, the Mahdi Army ,” Ira M. Lapidus, a co-author of “Islam, Politics and Social Movements” and a professor of history at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, wrote in an e-mail message. }}