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Contrariety vs Dissension - What's the difference?

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Contrariety is a related term of dissension.


As nouns the difference between contrariety and dissension

is that contrariety is opposition or contrariness; cross-purposes, marked contrast while dissension is an act of expressing dissent, especially spoken.

contrariety

English

Noun

(contrarieties)
  • 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.

    • dissension

    English

    Noun

  • An act of expressing dissent, especially spoken.
  • Strong disagreement; a contention or quarrel; discord.
  • * 1843 , E.A.Poe,
    • The natural scenery of America has often been contrasted, in its general features as well as in detail, with the landscape of the Old World—more especially of Europe—and not deeper has been the enthusiasm, than wide the dissension , of the supporters of each region.