Synonyms for contention
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : kuhn-ten-shuhn |
| Phonetic Transcription : kənˈtɛn ʃən |
Top 10 synonyms for contention Other synonyms for the word contention
- advancement
- affirmation
- altercation
- asseveration
- avowal
- battle
- beef
- belligerency
- bone of contention
- bone to pick
- charge
- combat
- contest
- contestation
- declaration
- demurrer
- deposition
- difference
- disaccord
- discord
- dissension
- dissent
- dissidence
- disunity
- enmity
- feuding
- fight
- flak
- ground
- hassle
- hostility
- hurrah
- hypothesis
- idea
- maintaining
- opinion
- plea
- position
- predication
- profession
- quarrel
- rivalry
- rumpus
- run-in
- scene
- scrap
- set-to
- squabble
- stand
- static
- strife
- struggle
- thesis
- variance
- view
- war
- wrangle
- wrangling
Définition of contention
Origin :- late 14c., "strife," from Old French contention, from Latin contentionem (nominative contentio), from content-, past participle stem of contendere (see contend).
- noun competition
- noun argument for idea
- Passages taken at haphazard will suffice to establish my contention.
- Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
- Just what the ratio of the curve should be is a matter of contention.
- Extract from : « Flying Machines » by W.J. Jackman and Thos. H. Russell
- Then I wish that bone of contention was from between the two churches.
- Extract from : « Tales And Novels, Volume 9 (of 10) » by Maria Edgeworth
- Let me take one example which may mark out the outline of the contention.
- Extract from : « Alarms and Discursions » by G. K. Chesterton
- Then began a contention the most vehement that ever I had with woman.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 3 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- On the whole he preferred a quiet life free from contention.
- Extract from : « Jan and Her Job » by L. Allen Harker
- The only bone of contention between them was the education lavished on their children.
- Extract from : « The Fortune of the Rougons » by Emile Zola
- This is proved by the strife and contention of the Gods respecting her.
- Extract from : « Menexenus » by Plato
- The imaginative will at once say that the contention is too far fetched.
- Extract from : « The Curse of Education » by Harold E. Gorst
- His contention is that art adds nothing to the knowledge of the mind.
- Extract from : « Browning's England » by Helen Archibald Clarke
Antonyms for contention
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