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Tumult vs Conflict - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between tumult and conflict

is that tumult is confused, agitated noise as made by a crowd while conflict is A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals.

As verbs the difference between tumult and conflict

is that tumult is to make a tumult; to be in great commotion while conflict is To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible.

tumult

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Confused, agitated noise as made by a crowd.
  • * Alexander Pope
  • Till in loud tumult all the Greeks arose.
  • Violent commotion or agitation, often with confusion of sounds.
  • the tumult of the elements
    the tumult of the spirits or passions
  • A riot or uprising.
  • Synonyms

    * uproar * ruckus

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To make a tumult; to be in great commotion.
  • Importuning and tumulting even to the fear of a revolt. — Milton.
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    conflict

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author= Mark Tran
  • , volume=189, issue=6, page=1, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Denied an education by war , passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
  • An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible
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  • To overlap (with), as in a schedule.
  • Your conference call conflicts with my older one: please reschedule.

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