contradictoriness

noun

Definition of contradictorinessnext
as in disparity

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  1. disparity
  2. dissimilarity
  3. divergence
  4. opposition
  5. polarity
  6. variance
  7. discrepancy
Noun
  • Route comparisons presented at the forum showed stark price disparities, including American’s $919 nonstop fare between CLT and Philadelphia versus $254 on Frontier, and a $1,041 fare from CLT to Miami on American versus $126 on Frontier.
    — Chase Jordan October 30, Charlotte Observer, 30 Oct. 2026
  • Management wants a cap and a floor that would cut down disparity in payrolls along with restricting a player to at most 15% of his team's payroll.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 29 Oct. 2026
Definition of disparity
Noun
  • In fact, the German scholar Winfried Fluck, in a study of the Americanization of global culture, credited Americans’ dissimilarities with the dominance of its popular culture.
    — Lily Rothman, Time, 23 Apr. 2026
  • Their results support the hypothesis that limiting trait similarity allows the establishment of non-native parakeets at the local scale by reducing competition with native species due to trait dissimilarity.
    — GrrlScientist, Forbes.com, 16 Apr. 2026
Definition of dissimilarity
Noun
  • Following an extended advance, the S & P 500 began testing its rising 50-day moving average as negative RSI divergences developed.
    — Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The divergence shows how much revenue growth now depends on earning more from each passenger rather than carrying more of them.
    — Reuters, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of divergence
Noun
  • In October 2023, Machado won an opposition primary and intended to challenge Maduro in the 2024 presidential election, but the government barred her from running for office.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Venezuelan opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado has returned to Venezuela after ten months abroad, announcing her arrival in a social media post.
    — Carrie Kahn, NPR, 25 Oct. 2026
Definition of opposition
Noun
  • These sensors can detect both the magnitude and polarity of a magnetic field, and the board can report its measurements hundreds to thousands of times per second, depending on how much processing power your microcontroller has available.
    — Stephen Cass, IEEE Spectrum, 26 Oct. 2026
  • Reversing the voltage’s polarity reversed the direction of rotation.
    — Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
Definition of polarity
Noun
  • Lago himself has previously approved the variance with other commissioners, Boutin said.
    — Michelle Marchante, Miami Herald, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Cathedral of the Rockies is suing the city after the Boise City Council denied on appeal its application for a variance to code to build a 35-space parking lot on open land next to its religious hub on Hays Street last month.
    — Mark Dee, Idaho Statesman, 22 Oct. 2026
Definition of variance
Noun
  • Paulding County Sheriff's Office Echols also highlighted significant physical discrepancies regarding the location and movement of the firearm.
    — La'Tasha Givens, CBS News, 27 Oct. 2026
  • Turning Factory Integration into Business Value Identification errors, incorrect RFID encoding, shipment discrepancies and last-minute changes can create rework, delays and retailer chargebacks.
    — SJ Studio, Footwear News, 26 Oct. 2026
Definition of discrepancy
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