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Altercation vs Argumentation - What's the difference?

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Altercation is a related term of argumentation.


As nouns the difference between altercation and argumentation

is that altercation is warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest while argumentation is argument (the process of reasoning).

altercation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest.
  • * (rfdate), Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear
    • "What the hell is it to you who are my friends?" roared McMurdo in a voice which brought every head in the carriage round to witness the altercation .

    Synonyms

    * dispute, wrangle

    argumentation

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • Inference based on reasoning from given propositions
    • His chain of argumentation is flawed.
  • An exchange of arguments
    • Their argumentation continued long into the night.

    Derived terms

    * argumentational * argumentationally ----