contrariety

con·tra·ri·ety

noun \ˌkän-trə-ˈrī-ə-tē\

plural con·tra·ri·eties

Definition of CONTRARIETY

1

: the quality or state of being contrary

2

: something contrary

Examples of CONTRARIETY

1. <the inescapable contrariety of her chief interests: food and a desire for supermodel svelteness>

Origin of CONTRARIETY

Middle English contrariete, from Anglo-French contrarieté, from Late Latin contrarietat-, contrarietas, from Latin contrarius contrary

First Known Use: 14th century

Related to CONTRARIETY

Synonyms: contrariness, oppositeness, opposition, polarity

Antonyms: identicalness, sameness

Related Words: contradictoriness; antipode, antithesis; disparateness, disparity, dissimilarity, divergence, unlikeness; inequality; conflict, disagreement, discrepancy, variance; incompatibility, incongruence, incongruity, incongruousness

Near Antonyms: agreement, alikeness, conformity, congruity, correspondence, likeness, parallelism, resemblance, similarity, similitude; analogousness; correlation, relationship

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Rhymes with CONTRARIETY

impropriety, inebriety, insobriety, notoriety