DISAGREEMENT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disagreement mean? 

• DISAGREEMENT (noun)
  The noun DISAGREEMENT has 3 senses:

1. a conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters

2. a difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions

3. the speech act of disagreeing or arguing or disputing

  Familiarity information: DISAGREEMENT used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISAGREEMENT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A conflict of people's opinions or actions or characters

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Synonyms:

disagreement; dissension; dissonance

Hypernyms ("disagreement" is a kind of...):

conflict (a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disagreement"):

disunity (lack of unity (usually resulting from dissension))

divide (a serious disagreement between two groups of people (typically producing tension or hostility))

Antonym:

agreement (harmony of people's opinions or actions or characters)

Derivation:

disagree (be of different opinions)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A difference between conflicting facts or claims or opinions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

disagreement; discrepancy; divergence; variance

Context example:

a growing divergence of opinion

Hypernyms ("disagreement" is a kind of...):

difference (the quality of being unlike or dissimilar)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disagreement"):

allowance; leeway; margin; tolerance (a permissible difference; allowing some freedom to move within limits)

Sense 3

Meaning:

The speech act of disagreeing or arguing or disputing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("disagreement" is a kind of...):

speech act (the use of language to perform some act)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disagreement"):

confrontation; encounter; face-off; showdown (a hostile disagreement face-to-face)

dissidence (disagreement; especially disagreement with the government)

dissent (a difference of opinion)

nonconformity (lack of harmony or correspondence)

discord; dissension (disagreement among those expected to cooperate)

conflict; difference; difference of opinion; dispute (a disagreement or argument about something important)

Antonym:

agreement (the verbal act of agreeing)

Derivation:

disagree (be of different opinions)

 Context examples 

Your job will be to get at the core of what is causing the disagreement or discussion.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

But the points of disagreement did not affect his love.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

James and his father had many disagreements about me.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But progress has been limited by disagreement over a central question: What, exactly, causes tree deaths?

(What's killing trees during droughts?, National Science Foundation)

During all this time I can only once remember that there was the slightest disagreement between him and my mother.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A psychometric scale commonly used in questionnaires where a respondent is asked to evaluate an opinion according to subjective or objective criteria, by rating their level of agreement or disagreement with a statement.

(Likert Scale, NCI Thesaurus)

There is disagreement regarding its relationship to endolymphatic sac tumor.

(Endolymphatic Sac Tumor, NCI Thesaurus)

The general was furious in his anger, and they parted in dreadful disagreement.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Professor Summerlee for once was too depressed to argue, though he shook his head violently as a token of general disagreement.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Can there be any disagreement between us here?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)