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Contradiction vs. Contrast

Contradiction and Contrast Definitions

Contradiction

The act or an instance of contradicting
The witness's contradiction of other testimony.

Contrast

To set in opposition in order to show or emphasize differences
An essay that contrasts city and country life.
Contrasted this computer with inferior models.

Contradiction

The state of being contradicted
A supervisor who cannot tolerate contradiction from any subordinate.

Contrast

To show differences when compared
Siblings who contrast sharply in interests and abilities.
A color that contrasted clearly with the dark background.

Contradiction

An inconsistency or discrepancy
"Surprisingly few people saw a contradiction between freedom for whites and bondage for slaves" (Adam Hochschild).

Contrast

(Linguistics) To evince a difference that can distinguish meaning
Voiced and voiceless stops contrast in English but not in Cree.
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Contradiction

Inconsistency; discrepancy
Practices that are in contradiction to human rights.

Contrast

The act of contrasting; a setting off of dissimilar entities or objects.

Contradiction

One that contains elements that oppose or conflict with one another
The phrase "an unmarried husband" is a contradiction in terms.

Contrast

The state of being contrasted
Red berries standing in vivid contrast against the snow.

Contradiction

The act of contradicting.
His contradiction of the proposal was very interesting.

Contrast

A difference, especially a strong dissimilarity, between entities or objects compared
The contrast between Northern and Southern speech patterns.
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Contradiction

(countable) A statement that contradicts itself, i.e., a statement that claims that the same thing is true and that it is false at the same time and in the same senses of the terms.
There is a contradiction in Clarence Page's statement that a woman should have the right to choose and decide for herself whether to have an abortion and at the same time she should not have that right.
There is a contradiction in what you say: she can't be both married and single.

Contrast

One thing that is strikingly dissimilar to another
My new school was a welcome contrast to the one before.

Contradiction

(countable) A logical inconsistency among two or more elements or propositions.
Marx believed that the contradictions of capitalism would lead to socialism.

Contrast

The use of opposing elements, such as colors, forms, or lines, in proximity to produce an intensified effect in a work of art.

Contradiction

A proposition that is false for all values of its propositional variables or Boolean atoms.

Contrast

The difference in brightness between the light and dark areas of a picture, such as a photograph or video image.
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Contradiction

An assertion of the contrary to what has been said or affirmed; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration; gainsaying.
His fair demandsShall be accomplished without contradiction.

Contrast

(Linguistics) A difference between units, especially one that distinguishes meaning.

Contradiction

Direct opposition or repugnancy; inconsistency; incongruity or contrariety; one who, or that which, is inconsistent.
Can he make deathless death? That were to makeStrange contradiction.
We state our experience and then we come to a manly resolution of acting in contradiction to it.
Both parts of a contradiction can not possibly be true.
Of contradictions infinite the slave.

Contrast

(countable) A difference in lightness, brightness and/or hue between two colours that makes them more or less distinguishable.

Contradiction

Opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas

Contrast

(uncountable) The degree of this difference.
The red and the orange don't have much contrast between them — I can hardly tell them apart.

Contradiction

(logic) a statement that is necessarily false;
The statement `he is brave and he is not brave' is a contradiction

Contrast

(countable) A control on a television, etc, that adjusts the amount of contrast in the images being displayed.

Contradiction

The speech act of contradicting someone;
He spoke as if he thought his claims were immune to contradiction

Contrast

(countable) A difference between two objects, people or concepts.
Israel is a country of many contrasts.

Contrast

(countable) Something that is opposite of or strikingly different from something else.

Contrast

Antithesis.

Contrast

(transitive) To set in opposition in order to show the difference or differences between.

Contrast

(intransitive) To form a contrast.
Foreground and background strongly contrast.

Contrast

To stand in opposition; to exhibit difference, unlikeness, or opposition of qualities.
The joints which divide the sandstone contrast finely with the divisional planes which separate the basalt into pillars.

Contrast

To set in opposition, or over against, in order to show the differences between, or the comparative excellences and defects of; to compare by difference or contrariety of qualities; as, to contrast the present with the past.

Contrast

To give greater effect to, as to a figure or other object, by putting it in some relation of opposition to another figure or object.
The figures of the groups must not be all on side . . . but must contrast each other by their several position.

Contrast

The act of contrasting, or the state of being contrasted; comparison by contrariety of qualities.
Place the prospect of the soulIn sober contrast with reality.

Contrast

Opposition or dissimilitude of things or qualities; unlikeness, esp. as shown by juxtaposition or comparison.
The contrasts and resemblances of the seasons.

Contrast

The opposition of varied forms, colors, etc., which by such juxtaposition more vividly express each other's peculiarities.

Contrast

The opposition or dissimilarity of things that are compared;
In contrast to
By contrast

Contrast

The act of distinguishing by comparing differences

Contrast

A conceptual separation or demarcation;
There is a narrow line between sanity and insanity

Contrast

The perceptual effect of the juxtaposition of very different colors

Contrast

The range of optical density and tone on a photographic negative or print (or the extent to which adjacent areas on a television screen differ in brightness)

Contrast

Put in opposition to show or emphasize differences;
The middle school teacher contrasted her best student's work with that of her weakest student

Contrast

To show differences when compared; be different;
The students contrast considerably in their artistic abilities

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