contrariety

contrariety
    n 1: the relation between contraries
    

Contrariety \Con`tra*ri"e*ty\n.; pl. {Contrarieties}. [L.
   contrarietas: cf. F. contrari['e]t['e].]
   1. The state or quality of being contrary; opposition;
      repugnance; disagreement; antagonism.
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            There is a contrariety between those things that
            conscience inclines to, and those that entertain the
            senses.                               --South.
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   2. Something which is contrary to, or inconsistent with,
      something else; an inconsistency.
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            How can these contrarieties agree?    --Shak.

   Syn: Inconsistency; discrepancy; repugnance.
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204 Moby Thesaurus words for "contrariety":
      abominability, accord, addition, adjunct, affairs, affiliation,
      affinity, alliance, antagonism, anteposition, antipathy,
      antithesis, approximation, assemblage, association, asymmetry,
      backlash, bad blood, baseness, beastliness, bond, clashing,
      closeness, collision, combination, competition, con, conflict,
      confrontation, confrontment, confutation, connectedness,
      connection, contemptibility, contention, contiguity, contradiction,
      contradistinction, contraposition, contrariness, contrast,
      counteraction, counterposition, counterworking, crankiness,
      cross-purposes, crotchetiness, crudeness, dealings, deduction,
      departure, despicability, despicableness, deviation, difference,
      disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disconformity,
      discongruity, discordance, discrepancy, discreteness,
      disequilibrium, disgustingness, disjunction, disparity,
      disproportion, dissension, dissent, dissimilarity, dissonance,
      distinction, distinctness, divergence, divergency, diversity,
      enmity, far cry, filiation, foulness, fractiousness, friction,
      fulsomeness, grossness, harshness, hatefulness, heinousness,
      heterogeneity, homology, hostility, ignobility, imbalance,
      inaccordance, inadequacy, incompatibility, incongruity,
      inconsistency, inconsonance, inequality, inequity,
      inharmoniousness, inharmony, inimicalness, injustice,
      insufficiency, intercourse, interference, intimacy,
      irreconcilability, irregularity, junction, kick, liaison, link,
      linkage, linking, loathsomeness, mixture, mutual attraction,
      nastiness, nauseousness, nearness, negativeness, noisomeness,
      noncompliance, nonconcurrence, nonconformance, nonconformism,
      nonconformity, noncooperation, nonobservance, nonuniformity,
      noxiousness, objectionability, objectionableness, obnoxiousness,
      obscenity, obstinacy, odds, odiousness, offensiveness, opposing,
      opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy, originality,
      otherness, overbalance, perverseness, polar opposition, polarity,
      polarization, posing against, propinquity, protest, proximity,
      putridity, putridness, rapport, reaction, rebarbativeness,
      recalcitrance, recoil, recusance, recusancy, refractoriness,
      relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, renitency,
      repellence, repellency, repercussion, repugnance, repulsiveness,
      resistance, revolt, rivalry, rottenness, separateness, shortcoming,
      similarity, swimming upstream, sympathy, tie, tie-in, unbalance,
      unconformity, uncooperativeness, unevenness, unfair discrimination,
      union, unlikeness, unorthodoxy, unspeakableness, variance,
      variation, variegation, variety, vileness, vying