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contrariety

noun as in opposition

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Concerning the disease, there was great contrariety of opinion among medical men.

But it isn't particularly reasonable to talk of the contrariety of fate if they both get hit.

The same contrariety in his members seemed to exist throughout the whole man.

And yet the extensive contrariety between the old and the new is admitted.

With that unerring instinct of contrariety that never seemed to forsake him, Borrow proceeded to learn, not law but Welsh.

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On this page you'll find 28 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to contrariety, such as: antithesis, contradiction, contradistinction, contrariness, contrast, and oppositeness.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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