fissiparous

Definition

Factious, tending to break into pieces.

Etymology

An adaptation of New Latin fissiparus, from fissus (“split, cleft”) + pariō (“I bring forth”) by analogy with vīviparus.

Example Sentences

• "That nation, inescapably, is Germany, the largest, richest, most important, perhaps most admirable and certainly most pivotal nation in the European Union, the nation around which a flourishing Europe will always centre and the nation upon which a fissiparous Europe always risks foundering."
• "There is no panacea. Iraq is a destroyed and fissiparous country."
• "Like empires, world orders grow old, fissiparous, complacent and grumpy — despite the Champagne, the thrill is gone."

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