What is another word for fissure?

Pronunciation: [fˈɪʃə] (IPA)

A fissure can be described as a narrow opening or crack in a surface. There are several synonyms that can be used to describe a fissure, including crevice, gap, chink, rift, and split. Each of these synonyms can be used to convey the idea of a separation or division within a larger structure. A crevice can be a small or narrow opening, while a gap is a wider opening or space. A chink is often used to describe a small or narrow opening that allows light to shine through, while a rift is a larger or more serious division. Split is often used to describe a complete or total separation between two surfaces or structures.

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  • Equivalence

    • Noun, singular or mass
      crack.
  • Reverse Entailment

  • Other Related

    • Noun, singular or mass
      rift.

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Usage examples for Fissure

A second more and he would be on the outside, and would hide in the rocky fissure.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
On the contrary the more water they drew from it the more it flowed, and filled the fissure higher.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
The earth has settled in between the masses of rock above and around her, and hidden her, but there is still the fissure down which we have just come.
"The Hilltop Boys on Lost Island"
Cyril Burleigh

Famous quotes with Fissure

  • The American fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact. Their newspapers and propaganda carefully cultivate every fissure of disunity, every crack in the common front against fascism.
    Henry A. Wallace
  • “When material needs are largely satisfied,” writes Carl Rogers, “as they tend to be for many people in this affluent society, individuals are turning to the psychological world, groping for a greater degree of authenticity and fulfillment.” The clear distinction between material and psychic needs is already the mystification; it capitulates to the ideology of the affluent society which affirms the material structure is sound, conceding only that some psychic and spiritual values might be lacking. Exactly this distinction sets up “authenticity” and “fulfillment” as so many more commodities for the shopper. Rather it is the fissure itself which is the source of the ills—between work and “free” time, material structure and psychological “world,” producers and consumers.
    Russell Jacoby

Related words: fissure in a patient's cane, cerebral fissure, anterior lateral fissure, posterior lateral fissure, medial fissure, tectonic fissure

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