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Definition of Contradictoriness
1. Noun. The relation that exists when opposites cannot coexist.
Specialized synonyms: Incompatibility, Inconsistency, Mutual Exclusiveness, Repugnance
Derivative terms: Contradictory, Contradictory, Contradictory
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
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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