CONTRADICTORINESS Synonyms: 36 Similar and Opposite Words

contradictoriness

noun

Definition of contradictoriness

as in disparity

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Noun

Still, data from the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research and the To&Through Project show how the disparities extend beyond high school and into college.

— Kate Armanini, Chicago Tribune, 13 Nov. 2026
Structured as a six-part anthology, Facing The Numbers explores these disparities through the real-life stories of First Nations people using a bold mix of dance, poetry, and spoken word.

— Zac Ntim, Deadline, 13 Nov. 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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That divergence becomes stark as Japan's Nikkei 225 and Taiwan's Taiex entered bear territory, while South Korea's Kospi deepened its bear market and the tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite entered into correction territory overnight.

— Priyanka Salve, CNBC, 6 Nov. 2026
There will be a natural divergence, too, on some high-profile issues.

— Burgess Everett, semafor.com, 6 Nov. 2026

Definition of divergence

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Waymo operates commercially in 15 US cities, but has faced opposition from labor unions, ride-hailing giants such as Uber and Lyft, and various AI-skeptical groups and pedestrian safety advocates.

— Max Tani, semafor.com, 9 Nov. 2026
Two Columbia University Apartheid Divest activists, bemoaning their opposition, coauthored a June 2024 opinion article signaling overlap with the police abolition movement.

— Hudson Crozier, The Washington Examiner, 9 Nov. 2026

Definition of opposition

Noun

Ion-generating toothbrushes release charged particles to induce a polarity that helps repel plaque, for example.

— Mike McRae, New Atlas, 4 Nov. 2026
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

Definition of polarity

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For Börchers and senior review author Christoffer Clemmensen, a research group leader at the University of Copenhagen, that discrepancy is particularly revealing.

— Daniella Gray, MSNBC Newsweek, 10 Nov. 2026
After the war, when more detailed information was gathered on those buried here, cemetery caretakers found discrepancies between military and actual birth records.

— Rob Newell, Baltimore Sun, 10 Nov. 2026

Definition of discrepancy

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