contradictoriness

noun

Definition of contradictorinessnext
as in disparity

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  1. disparity
  2. dissimilarity
  3. divergence
  4. opposition
  5. polarity
  6. variance
  7. discrepancy
Noun
  • There have been gains in graduation, though, and this year’s disparity between Black and non-Black students finishing school — 7.8 percentage points — was the lowest in school history, the district said in a news release, and was more than 10 points better than when the program began in 2016.
    Jack Evans, Miami Herald, 17 Jan. 2025
  • This action is an important step toward righting historic wrongs, correcting sentencing disparities, and providing deserving individuals the opportunity to return to their families and communities after spending far too much time behind bars.
    Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 17 Jan. 2025
Definition of disparity
Noun
  • Whether consumers are confused by the similarity (or dissimilarity) of the two designs goes to the heart of the dispute.
    Michael McCann, Sportico.com, 30 July 2024
  • Still, the dissimilarities, in his view, outweighed the similarities.
    Andrew Marantz, The New Yorker, 27 Mar. 2024
Definition of dissimilarity
Noun
  • But in the late twentieth century, globalization and technological change sparked a divergence in fortunes.
    Michael Beckley, Foreign Affairs, 7 Jan. 2025
  • While there were small points of divergence, the vast bulk of their memories matched.
    Jes Aznar, New York Times, 5 Jan. 2025
Definition of divergence
Noun
  • Much of Baldoni’s allegations run in opposition to Lively’s claims (which are fully explored in this story).
    Mary Whitfill Roeloffs, Forbes, 17 Jan. 2025
  • President-elect Trump’s legal team submitted a written opposition Friday to the Georgia Supreme Court over Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’s request to have the state’s high court review her removal from the former president’s 2020 election interference case.
    Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 17 Jan. 2025
Definition of opposition
Noun
  • To change a bit from a 1 to a 0, the head reverses the polarity of the magnetic material in the tiny patch, so that the spins in it point in the opposite direction.
    Pedram Khalili, IEEE Spectrum, 26 June 2015
  • But the fates of Penny and Neely have, like so much else in American life, become sucked into the polarities of political debate.
    Niall Stanage, The Hill, 3 Dec. 2024
Definition of polarity
Noun
  • However, your winning odds depend on various variants, such as the game’s RTP, volatility, variance, paytable and bonus rounds.
    Matthew Gover, Miami Herald, 6 Jan. 2025
  • Some scientists have argued that such potential challenges to the cosmological principle might be explained by another principle, cosmic variance, which refers to the statistical uncertainty inherent in astronomers’ measurements of the universe.
    Sarah Scoles, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2025
Definition of variance
Noun
  • Some journalists basically transcribed this without questioning the obvious discrepancy between her statement and the CDC website, which said vaccines merely reduce the risk of transmission.
    Cory Franklin, Twin Cities, 2 Jan. 2025
  • At a time when expectations of topical immediacy seem out of step with the methodology of museum research, this third iteration of PST surfaces the discrepancy between the past and the present in intriguing ways.
    Bryan Barcena, Artforum, 1 Jan. 2025
Definition of discrepancy
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