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Conflict vs. Confrontation

Conflict and Confrontation Definitions

Conflict

A state of open, often prolonged fighting; a battle or war.

Confrontation

The act of confronting or the state of being confronted, especially a meeting face to face.

Conflict

A state of disagreement or disharmony between persons or ideas; a clash
A conflict over water rights.

Confrontation

A conflict involving armed forces
A nuclear confrontation.

Conflict

(Psychology) An emotional or mental disturbance resulting from the opposition or simultaneous functioning of mutually exclusive impulses, desires, or tendencies.

Confrontation

Discord or a clash of opinions and ideas
An age of ideological confrontation.
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Conflict

Opposition between characters or forces in a work of drama or fiction, especially when motivating or shaping the action of the plot.

Confrontation

A focused comparison
An essay that brought elements of biography, autobiography, and general European history into powerful, meaningful confrontation.

Conflict

To be in or come into opposition; differ.

Confrontation

The act of confronting or challenging another, especially face to face.

Conflict

(Archaic) To engage in warfare.

Confrontation

A conflict between armed forces.
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Conflict

A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two or more opposing groups or individuals.
The conflict between the government and the rebels began three years ago.

Confrontation

Act of confronting.

Conflict

An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.
I wanted to attend the meeting but there's a conflict in my schedule that day.

Confrontation

A bold challenge

Conflict

(intransitive) To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible

Confrontation

Discord resulting from a clash of ideas or opinions
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Conflict

(intransitive) To overlap (with), as in a schedule.
Your conference call conflicts with my older one: please reschedule.
It appears that our schedules conflict.

Confrontation

A hostile disagreement face-to-face

Conflict

A striking or dashing together; violent collision; as, a conflict of elements or waves.

Confrontation

The act of opposing groups confronting each other;
The government was not ready for a confrontation with the unions
The invaders encountered stiff opposition

Conflict

A strife for the mastery; hostile contest; battle; struggle; fighting.
As soon as he [Atterbury] was himself again, he became eager for action and conflict.
An irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.

Confrontation

A focussed comparison; bringing together for a careful comparison

Conflict

To strike or dash together; to meet in violent collision; to collide.
Fire and water conflicting together.

Conflict

To maintain a conflict; to contend; to engage in strife or opposition; to struggle.
A man would be content to . . . conflict with great difficulties, in hopes of a mighty reward.

Conflict

To be in opposition; to be contradictory.
The laws of the United States and of the individual States may, in some cases, conflict with each other.

Conflict

An open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals);
The harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph
Police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs

Conflict

Opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings;
He was immobilized by conflict and indecision

Conflict

A hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war;
Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga
He lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement

Conflict

A state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests;
His conflict of interest made him ineligible for the post
A conflict of loyalties

Conflict

An incompatibility of dates or events;
He noticed a conflict in the dates of the two meetings

Conflict

Opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot);
This form of conflict is essential to Mann's writing

Conflict

A disagreement or argument about something important;
He had a dispute with his wife
There were irreconcilable differences
The familiar conflict between Republicans and Democrats

Conflict

Be in conflict;
The two proposals conflict!

Conflict

Go against, as of rules and laws;
He ran afould of the law
This behavior conflicts with our rules

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