Definitions for contrarieties

contrarieties con·tra·ri·e·ty

Spelling: [kon-truh-rahy-i-tee]
IPA: /ˌkɒn trəˈraɪ ɪ ti/

Contrarieties is a 13 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 1944 anagrams from letters in contrarieties (aceeiinorrstt).

Definitions for contrarieties

noun

  1. the quality or state of being contrary.
  2. something contrary or of opposite character; a contrary fact or statement.
  3. Logic. the relation between contraries.

Origin of contrarieties

1350-1400; Middle English contrariete (Anglo-French) Late Latin contrārietās. See contrary, -ity

Examples for contrarieties

Hence, again, a strong source of contrariety between the two sexes.

There is no contrariety, as I think, between the two things; it is never the frank who have the most to say.

This idea mingled emotions of a contrariety scarcely supportable. '

For then this league had no being, and a non-ens can have no contrariety.

On this subject, however, I believe there is no contrariety of opinion.

Secondly; How we are now in dissension and disunion, in strife and contrariety.

The child puzzled him by her contrariety, yet she was not a troublesome child.

She was low-spirited too, impatient with the contrariety of fate.

The cause of this contrariety lies not far beneath the surface.

The case is the same with contrariety, and with the degrees of any quality.

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