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noun 
  1. (uncountable) The act of contradicting.
His contradiction of the proposal was very interesting.
  1. (countable) A statement that contradicts itself.
There is a contradiction in what you say - she can't be both married and single.
  1. (logic) (countable) A proposition that is false for all values of its variables.
Translations: 
  • French: contradiction
    (trans-bottom)
  • Italian: contraddizione
  • German: Widerspruch
  • Spanish: contradicción
    (trans-bottom) (trans-top, proposition that is false for all values of its variables)
Etymology: From contradictionem, from contradicere.


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