CONTRADICTION
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Dictionary entry overview: What does contradiction mean?
• CONTRADICTION (noun)
The noun CONTRADICTION has 3 senses:
1. opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas
2. (logic) a statement that is necessarily false
3. the speech act of contradicting someone
Familiarity information: CONTRADICTION used as a noun is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
• CONTRADICTION (noun)
Meaning:
Opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("contradiction" is a kind of...):
oppositeness; opposition (the relation between opposed entities)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "contradiction"):
dialectic (a contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction)
Meaning:
(logic) a statement that is necessarily false
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Synonyms:
contradiction in terms; contradiction
Context example:
the statement 'he is brave and he is not brave' is a contradiction
Hypernyms ("contradiction" is a kind of...):
falsehood; falsity; untruth (a false statement)
Domain category:
logic (the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "contradiction"):
antinomy (a contradiction between two statements that seem equally reasonable)
paradox ((logic) a statement that contradicts itself)
Meaning:
The speech act of contradicting someone
Classified under:
Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents
Context example:
he spoke as if he thought his claims were immune to contradiction
Hypernyms ("contradiction" is a kind of...):
negation (the speech act of negating)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "contradiction"):
self-contradiction (contradicting yourself)
