Need another word that means the same as “contention”? Find 16 synonyms and 30 related words for “contention” in this overview.
The synonyms of “Contention” are: arguing, argument, contestation, controversy, disceptation, disputation, tilt, competition, rivalry, disagreement, dispute, variance, claim, plea, submission, allegation
According to the Oxford Dictionary of English, “contention” as a noun can have the following definitions:
allegation | A claim or assertion that someone has done something illegal or wrong, typically one made without proof. An allegation of malpractice. |
arguing | A contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement. |
argument | An independent variable associated with a function or proposition and determining its value For example in the expression y F x x the arguments of the function F are x and x and the value is y. I ve had an argument with my father. |
claim | An application for compensation under the terms of an insurance policy. His claim that he was innocent. |
competition | Interaction between animal or plant species, or individual organisms, that are attempting to gain a share of a limited environmental resource. A beauty competition. |
contestation | A contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement. Ideological contestation over social policy in the European Union. |
controversy | Prolonged public disagreement or heated discussion. The design of the building has caused controversy. |
disagreement | A conflict of people’s opinions or actions or characters. There was some disagreement about the details. |
disceptation | Disputation, debate, discussion; an instance of this. |
disputation | A contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement. Scholastic disputations. |
dispute | A disagreement or argument. He had a dispute with his wife. |
plea | A defendant’s answer by a factual matter (as distinguished from a demurrer. Her plea of a headache was not entirely false. |
rivalry | The act of competing as for profit or a prize. There always has been intense rivalry between the clubs. |
submission | The condition of having submitted to control by someone or something else. They were forced into submission. |
tilt | A combat between two mounted knights tilting against each other with blunted lances. The court s tilt toward conservative rulings. |
variance | The fact or quality of being different, divergent, or inconsistent. A zoning variance. |
argue | Present reasons and arguments. She was too tired to argue the point. |
argument | An independent variable associated with a function or proposition and determining its value For example in the expression y F x x the arguments of the function F are x and x and the value is y. He rejected the argument that keeping the facility would be costly. |
bellicose | Having or showing a ready disposition to fight. A mood of bellicose jingoism. |
combative | Having or showing a ready disposition to fight. He made some enemies with his combative style. |
competition | A business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers. Business competition can be fiendish at times. |
contend | Assert something as a position in an argument. Factions within the government were contending for the succession to the presidency. |
contentious | Causing or likely to cause an argument; controversial. A central and contentious element of the book. |
contentiousness | An inclination to be quarrelsome and contentious. |
contest | An occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants. A coalition was formed to contest the presidential elections. |
controversy | Prolonged public disagreement or heated discussion. The design of the building has caused controversy. |
counterattack | Make a counterattack. |
debatable | Open to doubt or debate. It is debatable whether the country is coming out of recession. |
debate | Have an argument about something. Last night s debate on the Education Bill. |
disagreement | The speech act of disagreeing or arguing or disputing. Disagreements between parents and adolescents. |
discord | Lack of agreement or harmony between things. We discorded commonly on two points. |
disputatious | Fond of having heated arguments. It s a congenial hang out for disputatious academics. |
dispute | A disagreement or argument about something important. An industrial dispute. |
dissension | Disagreement that leads to discord. The mill was the cause of a dissension in 1620. |
fight | Be engaged in a fight carry on a fight. The men were fighting. |
hassel | Norwegian chemist noted for his research on organic molecules (1897-1981. |
issue | Prepare and issue for public distribution or sale. I like him though I have some issues with the guy. |
litigious | Of or relating to litigation. Our increasingly litigious society. |
polemical | Of or involving strongly critical or disputatious writing or speech. A polemical essay. |
quarrel | A heated argument or disagreement, typically about a trivial issue and between people who are usually on good terms. They had a quarrel. |
quarrelsome | Given to or characterized by quarrelling. Quarrelsome when drinking. |
rivalry | The act of competing as for profit or a prize. There always has been intense rivalry between the clubs. |
row | The act of rowing as a sport. Her villa stood in a row of similar ones. |
strife | Trouble or difficulty of any kind. Decades of civil strife. |
wrangle | Have a long, complicated dispute or argument. An insurance wrangle is holding up compensation payments. |
wrangling | An instance of intense argument (as in bargaining. Weeks of political wrangling. |
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