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Agon vs Gon - What's the difference?

agon | gon |

As a proper noun agon

is .

As a noun gon is

golf or gon can be goal.

agon

English

Noun

(wikipedia agon) (en-noun)
  • A struggle or contest; conflict; especially between the protagonist and antagonist in a literary work.
  • An intellectual conflict or apparent competition of ideas.
    • “Freud's originality stemmed from his aggression and ambition in his agon with biology” (Harold Bloom).
  • A contest in ancient Greece, as in athletics or music, in which prizes were awarded.
  • A two-player boardgame played with a hexagonally-tiled board, popular in Victorian times. Also known as queen's guard.

    • Related terms

    * Agonies * agony * agonism * antagonism

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    gon

    English

    Etymology 1

    Compare (etyl) (m), dialectal (gan), (etyl) (m).

    Contraction

    (en-cont)

    • Etymology 2

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One hundredth of a right angle; a gradian.

    • Etymology 3

    Clipping.

    Noun

    (en noun)
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