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Ill_will vs Contrariety - What's the difference?

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Ill_will is a related term of contrariety.


As nouns the difference between ill_will and contrariety

is that ill_will is ill-disposed attitude; grudge; dislike while contrariety is opposition or contrariness; cross-purposes, marked contrast.

ill_will

English

Alternative forms

* ill-will

Noun

  • Ill-disposed attitude; grudge; dislike.
    • The losing side bore no ill will toward the winners.

    See also

    * goodwill

    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.