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
  • Have there been any improvements in access to care or in addressing health disparities?
    — Maggie Donahue, HEALTH, 20 Aug. 2026
  • What the research shows The USC Annenberg Inclusion Initiative released a landmark study in November 2025 revealing severe gender and racial disparities among the creators and guests of popular podcasts.
    — Frank Racioppi, Forbes.com, 19 Aug. 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
  • One randomized trial comparing high-dose oral D3 with narrow-band UVB found no difference in lipid profiles but clear divergence in immune-pathway signaling.
    — Tanya Akim, Forbes.com, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The relative line made lower lows into the middle of 2025, while the 14-month RSI made higher lows, creating a positive momentum divergence.
    — Frank Cappelleri, CNBC, 12 Aug. 2026
Definition of divergence
Noun
  • Historically, the ruling party in Nigeria's presidential elections usually has a higher chance of winning when the race features more than one prominent opposition candidate.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 19 Aug. 2026
  • Construction began last year, despite opposition from Norco city leaders, which saw their appeal to the utilities commission denied.
    — Joy Benedict, CBS News, 19 Aug. 2026
Definition of opposition
Noun
  • At about 230 kelvin, or minus 45 degrees Fahrenheit, the researchers found that strain could change the polarity of this Hall signal.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 12 Aug. 2026
  • The weaponization of frontier AI flips that polarity, reducing the mean time to discovery of infrastructure vulnerabilities and the potential of accelerating data exfiltration from weeks and days to hours and minutes.
    — Will Townsend, Forbes.com, 7 Aug. 2026
Definition of polarity
Noun
  • NewStreet likes Micron's price-to-overhead ratio that filters out some of the noise from supply-sensitive margin variance.
    — Sean Conlon,Hugh Leask,Justina Lee,Fred Imbert, CNBC, 13 Aug. 2026
  • Teams don’t have to be much better than middling to sneak into October and hope to ride the variance of tournament baseball to a title.
    — Hannah Keyser, CNN Money, 13 Aug. 2026
Definition of variance
Noun
  • Neither figure could be independently verified, and authorities did not explain the discrepancy.
    — ABC News, ABC News, 18 Aug. 2026
  • The prosecution noted some discrepancies in the crash report that Parks wrote.
    — Kaicey Baylor, CBS News, 18 Aug. 2026
Definition of discrepancy
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