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Conflicting vs Conflict - What's the difference?

conflicting | conflict |

As verbs the difference between conflicting and conflict

is that conflicting is while conflict is to be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible.

As an adjective conflicting

is striking, or dashing together; fighting; contending; struggling to resist and overcome.

As a noun conflict is

a clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals.

conflicting

English

(Webster 1828)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Striking, or dashing together; fighting; contending; struggling to resist and overcome.
  • Being in opposition; contrary; contradictory.
    • In the absence of all conflicting evidence.
  • * 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.

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    conflict

    English

    (wikipedia conflict)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Mark Tran
    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Denied an education by war , passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
  • An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.

    • Related terms

    * conflictional

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible
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  • To overlap (with), as in a schedule.
    • Your conference call conflicts with my older one: please reschedule.

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