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Disputation vs Altercation - What's the difference?

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Disputation is a related term of altercation.


As nouns the difference between disputation and altercation

is that disputation is the act of disputing; a reasoning or argumentation in opposition to something, or on opposite sides; controversy in words; verbal contest respecting the truth of some fact, opinion, proposition, or argument while altercation is warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest.

disputation

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of disputing; a reasoning or argumentation in opposition to something, or on opposite sides; controversy in words; verbal contest respecting the truth of some fact, opinion, proposition, or argument.
  • A rhetorical exercise in which parties reason in opposition to each other on some question proposed.

    • Synonyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    * disputable * disputant * disputatious * dispute

    altercation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Warm contention in words; dispute carried on with heat or anger; controversy; wrangle; wordy contest.
  • * (rfdate), Arthur Conan Doyle, The Valley of Fear
    • "What the hell is it to you who are my friends?" roared McMurdo in a voice which brought every head in the carriage round to witness the altercation .

    Synonyms

    * dispute, wrangle