splinter group
Dissenting offshoot organization
A splinter group is a faction that breaks away from a larger organization over disagreements about policy, strategy, or ideology.
The term suggests both the violence of the separation and the smaller size of the breakaway faction: A splinter group from the main party formed their own coalition.
Common in political, religious, and activist contexts.
- breakawaySudden separation from group
- break awaySeparate suddenly from
- dissidentOpposer of established systems
- dissident movementOrganized group challenging authority
- sectBreakaway religious faction
faction · rebel faction · seceder · schism · caucus · offshoot · separatist · heresy · political party · fragment · renegade · political faction · spin off · division · defector · heretic · nonconformist · cell
- groupsteam, teams, club, clubs, gang
- Fragmentationfragmentation, balkanization, breakup, disintegration, dismemberment
- party politicspolitical party, party, parties, party member, party system
- sectarianismsectarianism, sectarian, sect, schism, schismatic
- breakawayssecession, schism, faction, defection, desertion
- offshootsoffshoot, outgrowth, branch, spinoff, shoot
splinter groupmother church
Principal church of diocese
mainstream · core group · headquarters · establishment · central committee
splinter groupmerger
Corporate combination
coalition · alliance · federation · union · amalgamation
group, split, splinter, grouping, sliver, grouped, groups, splinters, splintered