Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun great_schism

1 sense of great schism

Sense 1
Great Schism -- (the period from 1378 to 1417 during which there were two papacies in the Roman Catholic Church, one in Rome and one in Avignon)
       INSTANCE OF=> time period, period of time, period -- (an amount of time; "a time period of 30 years"; "hastened the period of time of his recovery"; "Picasso's blue period")
       INSTANCE OF=> schism -- (the formal separation of a church into two churches or the withdrawal of one group over doctrinal differences)