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CONTRARIETY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does contrariety mean?
• CONTRARIETY (noun)
The noun CONTRARIETY has 1 sense:
1. the relation between contraries
Familiarity information: CONTRARIETY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The relation between contraries
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("contrariety" is a kind of...):
oppositeness; opposition (the relation between opposed entities)
Context examples
But such as they were, it may well be supposed how eagerly she went through them, and what a contrariety of emotion they excited.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
The wind blowing steady and gentle from the south, there was no contrariety between that and the current, and the billows rose and fell unbroken.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
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