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contrariety

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Synonyms and Antonyms of contrariety

the quality or state of being as different as possible

the inescapable contrariety of her chief interests: food and a desire for supermodel svelteness

Synonyms of contrariety

contrariness, oppositeness, opposition, polarity

Words Related to contrariety

contradictoriness

antipode, antithesis

disparateness, disparity, dissimilarity, divergence, unlikeness

conflict, disagreement, discrepancy, variance

incompatibility, incongruence, incongruity, incongruousness

Near Antonyms of contrariety

agreement, alikeness, conformity, congruity, correspondence, likeness, parallelism, resemblance, similarity, similitude

correlation, relationship

Antonyms of contrariety

identicalness, sameness

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