confrontation

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   the act of hostile groups opposing each other

   the government was not ready for a confrontation with the unions

2. 2
   noun

   The act of confronting or challenging another, especially face to face.

   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)[…]

3. 3
   noun

   a focussed comparison

4. 4
   noun

   a hostile disagreement face-to-face

5. 5
   noun

   discord resulting from a clash of ideas or opinions

6. 6
   noun

   a bold challenge

7. 7
   noun

   A conflict between armed forces.

Etymology

From Middle French. Morphologically confront + -ation.