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Confrontation

//ˌkɑn.fɹənˈteɪ.ʃən// noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    The act of confronting or challenging another, especially face to face. countable, uncountable

    "During the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, this commitment brought him into frequent critical confrontation with entrenched forms of conservative thinking (in academic areas from history and social science to the more abstract domains of ethical and political philosophy)[…]"

  2. 2
    a focussed comparison; bringing together for a careful comparison wordnet
  3. 3
    A conflict between armed forces. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    the act of hostile groups opposing each other wordnet
  5. 5
    a hostile disagreement face-to-face wordnet
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  1. 6
    discord resulting from a clash of ideas or opinions wordnet
  2. 7
    a bold challenge wordnet

Etymology

From Middle French. Morphologically confront + -ation.

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