Violence vs Contention - What's the difference?
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Extreme force.
Action which causes destruction, pain, or suffering.
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(figuratively) Injustice, wrong.
(obsolete) ravishment; rape; violation
struggle, contest, strife, argument, debate
A point maintained in an argument, or a line of argument taken in its support; the subject matter of discussion of strife; a position taken or contended for.
(computing, telecommunications) Competition by parts of a system or its users for a limited resource.
As nouns the difference between violence and contention
is that violence is extreme force while contention is struggle, contest, strife, argument, debate.violence
English
Noun
Mark Tran
Denied an education by war, passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
Hypernyms
* (extreme force) forceAntonyms
* peace, nonviolenceSee also
* domestic violence * reverse domestic violence ----contention
English
(wikipedia contention)Noun
(en noun)- It is my contention that state lotteries are taxes on stupid people.