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Contradictoriness

noun
1.
The relation that exists when opposites cannot coexist.






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"Contradictoriness" Quotes from Famous Books



... bitterness. In such a hot-bed of secession as was Delisleville, the fact in question was indeed not easily explainable, except upon the grounds either of a Quixotic patriotism or upon those of a general disposition to contradictoriness. A Southern man, the head of a Southern family, the Judge opposed the rebellion and openly sided with the Government. That he had been a man given to argument and contradiction, and always priding himself upon refusing to ...
— In Connection with the De Willoughby Claim • Frances Hodgson Burnett



Words linked to "Contradictoriness" :   opposition, incompatibility, repugnance, mutual exclusiveness, contradictory, oppositeness, inconsistency



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