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Contrariety

//kɒntɹəˈɹʌɪəti// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Opposition or contrariness; cross-purposes, marked contrast. countable, uncountable

    "What differences of sense and reason, what contrarietie of imaginations doth the diversitie of our passions present unto us?"

  2. 2
    the relation between contraries wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French contrariété, from Late Latin contrarietas, from contrarius, from Latin contra (“against”). By surface analysis, contrary + -ety.

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