splinter groups
Offshoots from organizations
Splinter groups are factions that break away from a larger organization over disagreements about ideology, strategy, or leadership.
The term suggests fragmentation—a piece splitting off from the whole: The party fractured into several splinter groups after the election.
Common in political, religious, and activist contexts, where doctrinal disputes or power struggles drive separation.
- separatistsAutonomy-seeking faction members
- breakaway factionOffshoot from larger organization
- sectBreakaway religious faction
- secessionistsThose advocating political withdrawal
- breakawaySudden separation from group
offshoot · defectors · schism · faction · rebel faction · apostates · fragmentation · dissidents · dissident movement · rift · power struggle · insurgents · armed wing · paramilitaries · political factions · disaffiliation · rebels · going rogue
- groupsteam, teams, club, clubs, gang
- groupingsgroups, categories, classes, divisions, clusters
- factionsfactions, faction, blocs, offshoot, caucuses
- Fringe Groupsmilitias, extremists, radicals, separatists, dissidents
- organizationsorganization, organizations, company, companies, club
- Political PartiesRepublican Party, Democratic Party, Labour Party, Conservative Party, Green Party
splinter groupsmother church
Principal church of diocese
core group · headquarters · umbrella organization · the whole · united front
splinter groupscoalition
Temporary alliance for action
federation · alliance · amalgamation · synthesis · union
splinter groupsmainstream
Dominant cultural current
mother church · united front · orthodoxy · big tent · coalition
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