'Contradiction' definitions:
Definition of 'contradiction'
From: WordNet
noun
Opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas
noun
(logic) a statement that is necessarily false; "the statement `he is brave and he is not brave' is a contradiction" [syn: contradiction, contradiction in terms]
noun
The speech act of contradicting someone; "he spoke as if he thought his claims were immune to contradiction"
Definition of 'Contradiction'
From: GCIDE
- Contradiction \Con`tra*dic"tion\, n. [L. contradictio answer, objection: cf. F. contradiction.]
- 1. An assertion of the contrary to what has been said or affirmed; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration; gainsaying. [1913 Webster]
- His fair demands Shall be accomplished without contradiction. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Direct opposition or repugnancy; inconsistency; incongruity or contrariety; one who, or that which, is inconsistent. [1913 Webster]
- can he make deathless death? That were to make Strange contradiction. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- We state our experience and then we come to a manly resolution of acting in contradiction to it. --Burke. [1913 Webster]
- Both parts of a contradiction can not possibly be true. --Hobbes. [1913 Webster]
- Of contradictions infinite the slave. --Wordsworth. [1913 Webster]
- Principle of contradiction (Logic), the axiom or law of thought that a thing cannot be and not be at the same time, or a thing must either be or not be, or the same attribute can not at the same time be affirmed and and denied of the same subject; also called the {law of the excluded middle}.
- Note: It develops itself in three specific forms which have been called the "Three Logical Axioms." First, "A is A." Second, "A is not Not-A" Third, "Everything is either A or Not-A." [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'contradiction'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abjuration,
- abjurement,
- abrogation,
- absolute contradiction,
- annulment,
- answer,
- antagonism,
- antipathy,
- antithesis,
- argumentation,
- backlash,
- bucking,
- challenge,
- chucking,
- chucking out,
- clashing,
- collision,
- complete answer,
- conflict,
- confounding,
- confrontation,
- confutation,
- contempt,
- contention,
- contradistinction,
- contraindication,
- contraposition,
- contrariety,
- contrary assertion,
- contrast,
- contravention,
- contraversion,
- controversion,
- controversy,
- counteraction,
- countering,
- counterposition,
- counterworking,
- crankiness,
- cross-purposes,
- crosscurrent,
- crossing,
- crotchetiness,
- declination,
- declining,
- demolition,
- denial,
- despisal,
- despising,
- difference,
- disaccord,
- disaccordance,
- disaffirmation,
- disagreement,
- disallowance,
- disapproval,
- disavowal,
- discard,
- disclaimer,
- disclamation,
- discord,
- discordance,
- discordancy,
- discounting,
- discrediting,
- discrepancy,
- disharmony,
- dismissal,
- disownment,
- disparity,
- disproof,
- disregard,
- dissension,
- dissent,
- dissidence,
- dissonance,
- disunion,
- disunity,
- divergence,
- diversity,
- effective rejoinder,
- exception,
- exclusion,
- faction,
- forswearing,
- friction,
- gainsaying,
- head wind,
- hostility,
- ignoring,
- impugnation,
- impugnment,
- inaccordance,
- inconsistency,
- inequality,
- inimicalness,
- interference,
- jarring,
- kick,
- negation,
- nonacceptance,
- nonapproval,
- nonconformity,
- nonconsideration,
- nullification,
- opposing,
- oppositeness,
- opposition,
- opposure,
- oppugnance,
- oppugnancy,
- oppugnation,
- overthrow,
- overthrowal,
- passing by,
- perverseness,
- perversity,
- polarity,
- putting away,
- putting out,
- reaction,
- rebuff,
- rebutment,
- rebuttal,
- recalcitrance,
- recantation,
- recoil,
- refusal,
- refutal,
- refutation,
- rejection,
- renitency,
- renouncement,
- renunciation,
- repercussion,
- repudiation,
- repugnance,
- repulse,
- resistance,
- retractation,
- retraction,
- revocation,
- revolt,
- scouting,
- showdown,
- spurning,
- squelch,
- standing against,
- subversion,
- swimming upstream,
- throwing out,
- traversal,
- turning out,
- undercurrent,
- undermining,
- unharmoniousness,
- upset,
- upsetting,
- variance