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n. A group of persons forming a cohesive, usually contentious minority within a larger group.

n. Conflict within an organization or nation; internal dissension: "Our own beloved country . . . is now afflicted with faction and civil war” ( Abraham Lincoln).

n. A form of literature or filmmaking that treats real people or events as if they were fictional or uses real people or events as essential elements in an otherwise fictional rendition.

n. A literary work or film that is a mix of fact and fiction.

n. A group of people, especially within a political organization, who express a shared belief or opinion different from people who are not part of the group.

n. Strife; discord.

n. A form of literature, film etc., that treats real people or events as if they were fiction; a mix of fact and fiction

n. One of the divisions or parties of charioteers (distinguished by their colors) in the games of the circus.

n. A party, in political society, combined or acting in union, in opposition to the government, or state; -- usually applied to a minority, but it may be applied to a majority; a combination or clique of partisans of any kind, acting for their own interests, especially if greedy, clamorous, and reckless of the common good.

n. Tumult; discord; dissension.

n. A party of persons having a common end in view; usually, such a party seeking by irregular means to bring about changes in government or in the existing state of affairs, or in any association of which they form part; a combination of persons using subversive or perverse methods of promoting their own selfish or partizan views or interests, especially in matters of state.

n. Combined disorderly opposition to established authority; turbulence; tumult; dissension.

n. In Roman antiquity, one of the classes into which the charioteers in the circensian games were divided, one of each contending in a race.

n. Synonyms Combination, Party, etc. See cabal.

n. a clique (often secret) that seeks power usually through intrigue

n. a dissenting clique

""Occasionally, the term faction is used as a synonym for political party, but" with opprobrious sense, conveying the imputation of selfish or mischievous ends or turbulent or unscrupulous methods ", according to the Oxford English Dictionary."

clique    inner circle    camp    in-group    coterie    pack   

dissension    splinter group   

fashion    fact    -faction    fiction    factory    factorial    factor   

clique    junto    cabal    combination    tumult    discord    dissension   

abstraction    action    attraction    contraction    diffraction    dissatisfaction    distraction    exaction    extraction    fraction   

sect    opposition    strife    minority    party    tyranny    leader    ambition    jealousy    intrigue