Definitions for contrariety

contrariety con·tra·ri·e·ty

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

Contrariety is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 871 anagrams from letters in contrariety (aceinorrtty).

Definitions for contrariety

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 contrariety

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

Examples for contrariety

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

This idea mingled emotions of a contrariety scarcely supportable. '

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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