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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Contrariety \Con`tra*ri"e*ty\n.; pl. {Contrarieties}. [L.
     contrarietas: cf. F. contrari['e]t['e].]
     1. The state or quality of being contrary; opposition;
        repugnance; disagreement; antagonism.
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              There is a contrariety between those things that
              conscience inclines to, and those that entertain the
              senses.                               --South.
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     2. Something which is contrary to, or inconsistent with,
        something else; an inconsistency.
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              How can these contrarieties agree?    --Shak.
  
     Syn: Inconsistency; discrepancy; repugnance.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  contrariety
       n : the relation between contraries

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  204 Moby Thesaurus words for "contrariety":
     abominability, accord, addition, adjunct, affairs, affiliation,
     affinity, alliance, antagonism, anteposition, antipathy,
     antithesis, approximation, assemblage, association, asymmetry,
     backlash, bad blood, baseness, beastliness, bond, clashing,
     closeness, collision, combination, competition, con, conflict,
     confrontation, confrontment, confutation, connectedness,
     connection, contemptibility, contention, contiguity, contradiction,
     contradistinction, contraposition, contrariness, contrast,
     counteraction, counterposition, counterworking, crankiness,
     cross-purposes, crotchetiness, crudeness, dealings, deduction,
     departure, despicability, despicableness, deviation, difference,
     disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disconformity,
     discongruity, discordance, discrepancy, discreteness,
     disequilibrium, disgustingness, disjunction, disparity,
     disproportion, dissension, dissent, dissimilarity, dissonance,
     distinction, distinctness, divergence, divergency, diversity,
     enmity, far cry, filiation, foulness, fractiousness, friction,
     fulsomeness, grossness, harshness, hatefulness, heinousness,
     heterogeneity, homology, hostility, ignobility, imbalance,
     inaccordance, inadequacy, incompatibility, incongruity,
     inconsistency, inconsonance, inequality, inequity,
     inharmoniousness, inharmony, inimicalness, injustice,
     insufficiency, intercourse, interference, intimacy,
     irreconcilability, irregularity, junction, kick, liaison, link,
     linkage, linking, loathsomeness, mixture, mutual attraction,
     nastiness, nauseousness, nearness, negativeness, noisomeness,
     noncompliance, nonconcurrence, nonconformance, nonconformism,
     nonconformity, noncooperation, nonobservance, nonuniformity,
     noxiousness, objectionability, objectionableness, obnoxiousness,
     obscenity, obstinacy, odds, odiousness, offensiveness, opposing,
     opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy, originality,
     otherness, overbalance, perverseness, polar opposition, polarity,
     polarization, posing against, propinquity, protest, proximity,
     putridity, putridness, rapport, reaction, rebarbativeness,
     recalcitrance, recoil, recusance, recusancy, refractoriness,
     relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, renitency,
     repellence, repellency, repercussion, repugnance, repulsiveness,
     resistance, revolt, rivalry, rottenness, separateness, shortcoming,
     similarity, swimming upstream, sympathy, tie, tie-in, unbalance,
     unconformity, uncooperativeness, unevenness, unfair discrimination,
     union, unlikeness, unorthodoxy, unspeakableness, variance,
     variation, variegation, variety, vileness, vying
  
  

















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