Schist vs Schism - What's the difference?
schist | schism |
Any crystalline rock having a foliated structure and hence admitting of ready division into slabs or slates.
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A split or separation within a group or organization, typically caused by discord.
(religion) A formal division or split within a religious body.
(Catholicism) a split within Christianity whereby a group no longer recognizes the Bishop of Rome as the head of the Church, but shares essentially the same beliefs with the Church of Rome. In other words, a political split without the introduction of heresy.
As nouns the difference between schist and schism
is that schist is any crystalline rock having a foliated structure and hence admitting of ready division into slabs or slates while schism is a split or separation within a group or organization, typically caused by discord.schist
English
(wikipedia schist)Noun
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- Millions of years ago the mica schists surrounding the old Brandberg West Mine became folded and concertinaed by enormous horizontal pressures.
Derived terms
* blueschist * greenschist * schistous * schistocityAnagrams
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English
Noun
(en noun)- The schism between Sunnis and Shias happened quite early in Islamic history.