different between schism vs chasma

English

Etymology

From Middle English scisme, from Old French cisme or scisme, from Ancient Greek ?????? (skhísma, “division”), from ????? (skhíz?, “I split”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sk?z?m/, /?s?z?m/, /???z?m/
• Rhymes: -?z?m

Noun

schism (plural schisms)

1. A split or separation within a group or organization, typically caused by discord.
2. (religion) A formal division or split within a religious body.

   The schism between Sunnis and Shias happened quite early in Islamic history.

3. (Catholicism) a split within Christianity whereby a group no longer recognizes the Bishop of Rome as the head of the Church, but shares essentially the same beliefs with the Church of Rome. In other words, a political split without the introduction of heresy.

Synonyms

• (split or separation): division, separation, split

Antonyms

• (split, division, separation): unity

Related terms

• schismatic

Translations

Anagrams

• Chisms

English

Etymology

From Latin chasma, from Ancient Greek ????? (khásma, “abyss, cleft”), from Ancient Greek ?????? (khásk?, “to gape, yawn”) (possibly from Proto-Indo-European *??an-, *g?an- (“to gape, yawn”) + -??? (-sk?, “inchoative suffix forming a present-tense word”), from Proto-Indo-European *-s?éti (“suffix forming a durative or iterative imperfective verb”); or from Proto-Indo-European *??eh?y- (“to gape, yawn”)) + Ancient Greek -?? (-ma, “suffix forming a noun denoting the result of an action”) (from Proto-Indo-European *-mn? (“suffix forming an action or result noun”)).

The obsolete “aurora” sense is from the fact that aurorae were thought to be rifts in the sky from which light shone through: see the 1822 quotation.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kazm?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kæzm?/
• Hyphenation: chas?ma

Noun

chasma (plural chasmas or chasmata)

1. (astronomy, geology) A long, narrow, steep-sided depression on a planet (often other than Earth), a moon, or another body in the Solar System.
2. (astronomy, obsolete, rare) An aurora.
3. Obsolete form of chasm.

Related terms

• chasm
• chasmal
• chasmatical (unattested; appears only in dictionaries)

Translations

Further reading

• chasma on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• ascham, chamas

Latin

Etymology

Borrowed from Ancient Greek ????? (khásma).

Noun

chasma n (genitive chasmatis); third declension

1. A chasm, abyss
2. A kind of meteor

Declension

Third-declension noun (neuter, imparisyllabic non-i-stem).

Descendants

• ? English: chasm, chasma

References

• chasma in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• chasma in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette, page 299