Division
Division noun - Something that divides, separates, or marks off.
Faction
Faction noun - A group of people acting together within a larger group.
Division is a synonym for faction in group topic. Sometimes you can use "Division" instead a noun "Faction", if it concerns topics such as conflict, clique, dissension, infighting.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
| good | good division | good faction |
| full | full division | full faction |
| similar | similar division | similar faction |
| certain | certain division | certain faction |
| Other adjectives: rival, separate, original, single, small, responsible, entire, large, main, major, political, former, military, significant, different, soviet. | ||
Both words in one sentence
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Abrams about Sydney Bristow (Jennifer Garner), an agent for SD-6, black-ops division of the CIA, who discovers that, whoops, it wasn't a black-ops division of the CIA so much as a faction of a powerful terrorist group called The Alliance; so she becomes a double agent.
Source: Series / Alias -
They're by far the most dangerous faction active within quarantined New York, and even have their own Division Agents.
Source: Video Game / The Division - To hammer this division in, the leader of each faction are brothers, who have never argued with each other once in their life prior to that event.
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Faction or Division. 2016. Accessed August 15, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/division/faction.
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