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Seditious vs Dissident - What's the difference?

seditious | dissident |

As an adjective seditious

is of, related to, or being involved in sedition; treasonous or subversive.

As a noun dissident is

dissident.

seditious

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Of, related to, or being involved in sedition; treasonous or subversive.

    • dissident

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • In a manner that disagrees; dissenting; discordant; different.
  • * Robynson (More's Utopia)
    • Our life and manners be dissident from theirs.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who formally opposes the current political structure, opposes the political group in power, opposes the policies of the political group in power, or opposes current laws.
  • (ecclesiastical) One who disagrees or dissents; one who separates from the established religion.

    • Related terms

    * dissenter