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Dissimilarity vs Contrariety - What's the difference?

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Dissimilarity is a related term of contrariety.


As nouns the difference between dissimilarity and contrariety

is that dissimilarity is lack of similarity or lack of likeness in appearance to something else while contrariety is opposition or contrariness; cross-purposes, marked contrast.

dissimilarity

English

Noun

(dissimilarities)
  • lack of similarity or lack of likeness in appearance to something else

    • Antonyms

    * similarity

    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.