Definition of Contradictoriness

1. Noun. The relation that exists when opposites cannot coexist.


Definition of Contradictoriness

1. n. The quality of being contradictory; opposition; inconsistency.

Definition of Contradictoriness

1. Noun. The state or quality of being contradictory. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Contradictoriness

contradicters
contradicting
contradiction
contradiction in terms
contradictional
contradictionless
contradictions
contradictions in terms
contradictious
contradictiously
contradictiousness
contradictive
contradictor
contradictories
contradictorily
contradictoriness (current term)
contradictors
contradictory
contradicts
contradirectional
contradistinct
contradistinction
contradistinctions
contradistinctive
contradistinctively
contradistinguish
contradistinguished
contradistinguishes
contradistinguishing
contradistinguisht

Literary usage of Contradictoriness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. An Introduction to the History of the Revolt of the American Colonies: Being by George Chalmers (1845)
"contradictoriness of Principle) and Practice in Colonial Administration. — Impeachment of Clarendon. THE joy or facility with which the southern colonists ..."

2. Practical Christian Socialism: A Conversational Exposition of the True by Adin Ballou (1854)
"... its inconsistency, contradictoriness and chaotic confusion—Summary recapitulation of points—Conclusion—Fourier's System to be next examined. ..."

3. Anti-Methodist Publications Issued During the Eighteenth Century by Richard Green (1902)
"In it various passages from Wesley's writings are printed in parallel columns, with a view to show Wesley's inconsistency and self contradictoriness. ..."

4. The Dawn of Character: A Study of Child Life by Edith Emily Read Mumford (1914)
"... and good conduct—Ultimate sanction of right or wrong conduct within himself—The voice of Conscience—• contradictoriness of his various experiences—Need ..."

5. Plato and the Older Academy by Eduard Zeller, Alfred Goodwin (1876)
"the meagreness, and sometimes the contradictoriness, of the traditions,29 it is impossible to ascertain with cer- For his travels in Egypt, we may quote his ..."

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