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Sect

🔄 Synonyms of "Sect"

2 synonyms found via WordNet and Google Books.

Word	Definition
factionnoun	(countable) A group of people, especially within a political organization, which expresses a shared belief or opinion different from people who are not part of the group.
religious ordernoun	(religion) An organized community of people who live in some way set apart from society in accordance with their specific religious devotion, usually characterized by the principles of the founder's religious practice.

💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Sect"

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Word	Definition
religious ordernoun	(religion) An organized community of people who live in some way set apart from society in accordance with their specific religious devotion, usually characterized by the principles of the founder's religious practice.
factionnoun	(countable) A group of people, especially within a political organization, which expresses a shared belief or opinion different from people who are not part of the group.
sectariannoun	A member of a sect.
cultnoun	(informal) A group of people having an obsession with or intense admiration for a particular activity, idea, person or thing.
doctrinenoun	(countable and uncountable) The body of teachings of an ideology, most often a religion, or of an ideological or religious leader, organization, group, or text.
communitynoun	(countable) A group sharing common characteristics, such as the same language, law, religion, or tradition.
clannoun	(anthropology) A group of people all descended from a common ancestor, in fact or belief, especially when the exact genealogies are not known.
kindnoun	A type, race or category; a group of entities that have common characteristics such that they may be grouped together.
artsnoun	The humanities.
chapnoun	(dated outside UK and Australia) A man, a fellow.
denominationnoun	(countable, religion) A class, or society of individuals, called by the same name; a subdivision of a religion.
shintonoun	Formerly the state religion of Japan, a type of animism involving the worship of ancestors and nature spirits.
depnoun	(informal) A deputy.
subparagraphnoun	Part of a longer paragraph that can be considered alone, as in a legal document.
sortnoun	A general type.
partnoun	A portion; a component.
chapternoun	One of the main sections into which a published work is divided, especially a book.
segmentnoun	One of the parts into which any body naturally separates or is divided; a part divided or cut off; a section; a portion.
confessionalnoun	(Roman Catholicism) A small room where confession—the Sacrament of Penance—is performed in private with a priest.
confessionnoun	The open admittance of having done something (especially something bad).