Conflicting vs Antithetical - What's the difference?
conflicting | antithetical | Related terms |
Striking, or dashing together; fighting; contending; struggling to resist and overcome.
Being in opposition; contrary; contradictory.
* 1999 , Herre van Oostendorp, Susan R. Goldman, The construction of mental representations during reading
*:On the other hand, the more effective the current activation vector is in reactivating the conflicting information, the more likely the two conflicting pieces of information are to be coactivated.
* 1841 , Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop Chapter 73
*:Of Sally Brass, conflicting rumours went abroad. Some said with confidence that she had gone down to the docks in male attire, and had become a female sailor; others darkly whispered that she had enlisted as a private in the second regiment of Foot Guards, and had been seen in uniform, and on duty, to wit, leaning on her musket and looking out of a sentry-box in St james's Park, one evening.
Pertaining to antithesis, or opposition of words and sentiments; containing, or of the nature of, antithesis; contrasted.
Conflicting is a related term of antithetical.
As adjectives the difference between conflicting and antithetical
is that conflicting is striking, or dashing together; fighting; contending; struggling to resist and overcome while antithetical is pertaining to antithesis, or opposition of words and sentiments; containing, or of the nature of, antithesis; contrasted.As a verb conflicting
is .conflicting
English
(Webster 1828)Adjective
(en adjective)- In the absence of all conflicting evidence.
Verb
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*antithetical
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- His wrong-headed beliefs are antithetical to everything we stand for as a community.
- This is precisely why insistence on relative truth is antithetical to critical thinking.