contrariety

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Opposition or contrariness; cross-purposes, marked contrast.

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

2. 2
   noun

   the relation between contraries

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

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