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Anaphasiaan-uh-fey-zhah
n. The fear that your society is breaking apart into factions that have nothing left in common with each other--each defending their own set of values, referring to their own cult figures, speaking in their own untranslatable language.
Etymology
From anaphase, the stage in cell division when sister chromatids are pulled apart to opposite sides of the cell + aphasia, the inability to comprehend or formulate language due to brain dysfunction.
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