divisiveness

divisive | American Dictionary

divisive
adjective
 disapprovingus/dɪˈvɑɪ·sɪv, -ˈvɪs·ɪv/
tending to cause disagreements that separate people into opposing groups:
The campaign for the mayor’s office was racially divisive.

Examples of divisive

divisive
In the meantime, he evades the examination of divisive historical themes.
This gap between the elite and the masses prevented the evolution of a code of ethics and a social contract to resolve divisive issues.
His call for "honest" taxes operated on the premise that his opponents would flinch before the prospect of a divisive debate about transparent taxes.
The different bases of political identities in developing nations can also explain why politics may become so divisive and polarizing.
Should divorce take place, too many new and divisive grudges would be added to those that existed in the closeknit community.
Yet it is also necessarily exclusive and divisive, since it needs its own borders.
By all accounts, however, these are incomplete and omit the most divisive debates.
The dramatic and divisive role that race played at the convention is illustrative of the complex relationship between black and white radicalism in the 1960s.
Language was to remain a deeply contentious and divisive issue.
Reflection on such insight may be the only contribution left to be made in this profoundly divisive moral battle.
Instead, it sees itself as the victim of external divisive forces.
Does it have divisive or unifying effects and in what sense and for what groups?
In these ways, hateful fighting words are especially traumatic and divisive.
The modulation of gain by surround stimuli was modelled best as a divisive reduction in response gain.
Many of the activists had left-wing ideologies and saw the sardars as divisive, oppressive agents of outside interests.
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