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divisiveness
[dih-vahy-siv-nis]
noun
a tendency to provoke dissension or discord.
He called for an end to the divisiveness among council members, imploring them to unite and work together for the betterment of the city.
Immigration bills are particularly difficult to pass because of the divisiveness of the issue.
Other Word Forms
- nondivisiveness noun
- semidivisiveness noun
- undivisiveness noun
Word History and Origins
Origin of divisiveness1
Example Sentences
“The first time Annie photographed me, more than ten years ago at my home, she sensed my discomfort right away and knew it was not merely about my general awkwardness with being photographed. It was specifically about my belly, which was newly postpartum, although I would probably still have worried even if it wasn’t. … Annie’s sanguine reaction was a relief. There was no divisiveness, no judgment.”
And while television viewers may march in different rallies and choose their opposing heroes and villains on the nightly news, there’s nothing like a few crazy costumes and a little ridiculousness to cut through the divisiveness and tap-dance into our hearts.
The stark choice we’d each be making between Zohran Mamdani and Andrew Cuomo, divisiveness or unity, loomed throughout.
Yes, in her 1992 address at New York University School of Law, remarks she titled “Speaking in a Judicial Voice,” Ginsburg, a year from becoming a Supreme Court justice, did say that the breadth of the court’s opinion in Roe created “prolonged divisiveness” and “deferred stable settlement of the issue.”
"It holds a mirror up to society and talks about the divisiveness in our culture and the fact that there's so much polarity."
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