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
