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Contradiction vs Conflicting - What's the difference?

contradiction | conflicting |

As a noun contradiction

is (uncountable) the act of contradicting.

As an adjective conflicting is

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

As a verb conflicting is

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contradiction

English

(wikipedia contradiction)

Noun

  • (uncountable) The act of contradicting.
    • His contradiction of the proposal was very interesting.
  • (countable) A statement that contradicts itself.
    • There is a contradiction in what you say - she can't be both married and single.
  • (countable) a logical incompatibility among two or more elements or propositions
    • Marx believed that the contradictions of capitalism would lead to socialism.
  • (logic, countable) A proposition that is false for all values of its variables.

    • Synonyms

    * (proposition that is false for all values of its variables)

    Antonyms

    * (proposition that is false for all values of its variables) tautology

    Coordinate terms

    * (proposition that is false for all values of its variables) contingency, tautology

    Related terms

    * contradict * contradictory

    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.

    • Verb

    (head)

    • References

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