Contrariety vs Contention - What's the difference?
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Opposition or contrariness; cross-purposes, marked contrast.
*, II.12:
*:What differences of sense and reason, what contrarietie of imaginations doth the diversitie of our passions present unto us?
* 1759 , (Laurence Sterne), The Life & Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman , Penguin 2003, p.61:
*:This contrariety of humours betwixt my father and my uncle, was the source of many a fraternal squabble.
* 1883 , (Robert Louis Stevenson), (Treasure Island) :
*:The wind blowing steady and gentle from the south, thee was no contrariety between that and the current, and the billows rose and fell unbroken.
*2011 , Tim Blanning, "The reinvention of the night", Times Literary Supplement , 21 Sep.:
*:At the heart of his argument is the contrariety between day and night, light and dark.
struggle, contest, strife, argument, debate
A point maintained in an argument, or a line of argument taken in its support; the subject matter of discussion of strife; a position taken or contended for.
(computing, telecommunications) Competition by parts of a system or its users for a limited resource.
As nouns the difference between contrariety and contention
is that contrariety is opposition or contrariness; cross-purposes, marked contrast while contention is struggle, contest, strife, argument, debate.contrariety
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(wikipedia contention)Noun
(en noun)- It is my contention that state lotteries are taxes on stupid people.