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fis·sip·a·rous (fĭ-sĭp’ər-əs)

adj.

1. Reproducing by biological fission.
2. Tending to break up into parts or break away from a main body; factious.
3. having separated or advocating separation from another entity or policy or attitude; “a breakaway faction”

fis·sip’a·rous·ly adv., fis·sip’a·rous·ness n.

“We are left then with a theory that is intended to explain much, but not necessarily all, of what James took to be religious experience in terms of shifting psychical centers of energy within a self that is understood to be inherently fissiparous” –Ann Taves “The Fragmentation of Conciousness,” in William James and a Science of Religions, pp. 63, Wayne Proudfoot, editor.

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