Denomination vs. Sect

Denominationnoun

(uncountable) The act of naming or designating.

Denominationnoun

(countable) That by which anything is denominated or styled; an epithet; a name, designation, or title; especially, a general name indicating a class of like individuals

Denominationnoun

A class, or society of individuals, called by the same name; a sect or religious subgroup.

Denominationnoun

(countable) A unit in a series of units of weight, money, etc.

Denominationnoun

The act of naming or designating.

Denominationnoun

That by which anything is denominated or styled; an epithet; a name, designation, or title; especially, a general name indicating a class of like individuals; a category; as, the denomination of units, or of thousands, or of fourths, or of shillings, or of tons.

Denominationnoun

A class, or society of individuals, called by the same name; a sect; as, a denomination of Christians.

Denominationnoun

a group of religious congregations having its own organization and a distinctive faith

Denominationnoun

a class of one kind of unit in a system of numbers or measures or weights or money;

Denominationnoun

identifying word or words by which someone or something is called and classified or distinguished from others

Sectnoun

An offshoot of a larger religion; a group sharing particular (often unorthodox) political and/or religious beliefs.

Sectnoun

A group following a specific ideal or a leader.

Sectnoun

(obsolete) A cutting; a scion.

Sectnoun

A cutting; a scion.

Sectnoun

Those following a particular leader or authority, or attached to a certain opinion; a company or set having a common belief or allegiance distinct from others; in religion, the believers in a particular creed, or upholders of a particular practice; especially, in modern times, a party dissenting from an established church; a denomination; in philosophy, the disciples of a particular master; a school; in society and the state, an order, rank, class, or party.

Sectnoun

a subdivision of a larger religious group

Sectnoun

a dissenting clique

Sect

A sect is a subgroup of a religious, political, or philosophical belief system, usually an offshoot of a larger group. Although the term was originally a classification for religious separated groups, it can now refer to any organization that breaks away from a larger one to follow a different set of rules and principles.