Other forms: dissents
Dissent is open refusal to accept the accepted view. Voices of dissent.
In a court a judge's dissent is recorded and sometimes becomes the law a generation later. Dissent is only useful where it is heard, which is why the word belongs to open societies.
1noundissentOpen refusal to accept the accepted view.
“There was one voice of dissent and the minutes did not record it.”
dissent is a refusal.
Latin dissentire means to differ in feeling, from dis plus sentire, to feel.
Proto-Indo-European
*sent-
Latin
dissentiō — to differ in sentiments, disagree, be at odds, contradict, quarrel
Middle English
dissenten
English, today
dissent
From Middle English dissenten, from Latin dissentiō (“to differ in sentiments, disagree, be at odds, contradict, quarrel”), from dis- + sentiō (see sense).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA