CONTRADICTORINESS Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

contradictoriness

noun

Definition of contradictoriness

as in disparity

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Noun

For all the concerns about payroll disparity, the Brewers and the Rays are among the lowest-spending teams in the sport.

— Josephine Murphy, NBC news, 23 Oct. 2026
An early opportunity to narrow gaps For decades, researchers have documented that children from wealthier families tend to perform better in school than their lower-income peers, and those disparities follow them through school.

— Emily Woodruff, Los Angeles Times, 22 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

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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 communities where multiple developers have invoked 8-30g despite community opposition, some Democratic candidates don’t follow the party leadership’s line.

— Don Stacom, Hartford Courant, 18 Oct. 2026
My answer is that opposition and engagement are not mutually exclusive.

— Raymond C. Pierce, Sun Sentinel, 18 Oct. 2026

Definition of opposition

Noun

Reversing the voltage’s polarity reversed the direction of rotation.

— Rupendra Brahambhatt, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
Magnetic flux and polarity specs are hard to find because there’s no standard for measuring magnetic flux, and many users don’t seek or need this information.

— ArsTechnica, ArsTechnica, 5 Oct. 2026

Definition of polarity

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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
However, any potential signal is expected to be faint and can be obscured by cosmic variance, the statistical uncertainty that arises when observations cover only a finite portion of the universe.

— Kaif Shaikh, Interesting Engineering, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of variance

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