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Contrast vs Contradiction - What's the difference?

contrast | contradiction |

In uncountable terms the difference between contradiction and contrast

is that contradiction is the act of contradicting while contrast is the degree of this difference.

In countable terms the difference between contradiction and contrast

is that contradiction is a logical incompatibility among two or more elements or propositions while contrast is a difference between two objects, people or concepts.

As a verb contrast is

to set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between.

contrast

English

Noun

  • (label) A difference in lightness, brightness and/or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable.
  • #(label) The degree of this difference.
  • #:
  • #(label) A control on a television, etc, that adjusts the amount of contrast in the images being displayed.
  • (label) A difference between two objects, people or concepts.
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  • *:The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast : Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it.
  • Antithesis.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between.
  • To form a contrast.
  • Foreground and background strongly contrast .
  • * Lyell
  • The joints which divide the sandstone contrast finely with the divisional planes which separate the basalt into pillars.

    Derived terms

    * contrasting

    See also

    * compare English heteronyms

    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