Meanings
nounschismogenesis (uncountable)
- uncountableanthropologyThe formation of schisms or divisions.
In other instances, schismogenesis results in the breakup of the original community, but with one or both factions surviving.
2002, Susan Love Brown, editor, Intentional Community: An Anthropological Perspective, SUNY Press, →ISBN, page 142
Origin
Coined by English anthropologist, linguist, semiotician and cyberneticist Gregory Bateson, schism + -o- + -genesis.
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