Contradiction vs Discrepancy - What's the difference?
contradiction | discrepancy |
(uncountable) The act of contradicting.
(countable) A statement that contradicts itself.
(countable) a logical incompatibility among two or more elements or propositions
(logic, countable) A proposition that is false for all values of its variables.
An inconsistency between facts or sentiments.
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-07, author=(Gary Younge)
, volume=188, issue=26, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= The state or quality of being discrepant.
As nouns the difference between contradiction and discrepancy
is that contradiction is the act of contradicting while discrepancy is an inconsistency between facts or sentiments.contradiction
English
(wikipedia contradiction)Noun
- His contradiction of the proposal was very interesting.
- There is a contradiction in what you say - she can't be both married and single.
- Marx believed that the contradictions of capitalism would lead to socialism.
Synonyms
* (proposition that is false for all values of its variables)Antonyms
* (proposition that is false for all values of its variables) tautologyCoordinate terms
* (proposition that is false for all values of its variables) contingency, tautologydiscrepancy
English
Noun
(discrepancies)Hypocrisy lies at heart of Manning prosecution, passage=WikiLeaks did not cause these uprisings but it certainly informed them. The dispatches revealed details of corruption and kleptocracy that many Tunisians suspected, […]. They also exposed the blatant discrepancy between the west's professed values and actual foreign policies.}}