Resistance vs Contestation - What's the difference?
resistance | contestation |
The act of resisting, or the capacity to resist.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=19 (physics) A force that tends to oppose motion.
(physics) Shortened form of electrical resistance.
An underground organization engaged in a struggle for liberation from forceful occupation.
The act of contesting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute.
Proof by witness; attestation; testimony.
As nouns the difference between resistance and contestation
is that resistance is resistance (all meanings) while contestation is the act of contesting; emulation; rivalry; strife; dispute.resistance
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Alternative forms
* resistaunce (obsolete)Noun
citation, passage=When Timothy and Julia hurried up the staircase to the bedroom floor, where a considerable commotion was taking place, Tim took Barry Leach with him. […]. The captive made no resistance and came not only quietly but in a series of eager little rushes like a timid dog on a choke chain.}}