Usually means: Rivalry or competition between opponents.
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  1. opponency: Merriam-Webster
  2. opponency: Collins English Dictionary
  3. opponency: Wordnik
  4. opponency: Wiktionary
  5. opponency: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  6. opponency: Infoplease Dictionary
  7. Opponency, opponency: Dictionary.com
  8. Opponency: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  9. opponency: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  10. Opponency: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  11. opponency: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. opponency: FreeDictionary.org
  13. opponency: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. opponency: Legal dictionary

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  1. opponency: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (opponency)

▸ noun:  (UK) The act of opening an academic disputation; the proposition of objections to a tenet, as an exercise for a degree.

Similar:
proponency, opination, apposition, opining, ostension, disputation, propoundment, objection, response, appointment, more...

Opposite:
synergy, cooperation, collaboration, partnership

Types:
antonym, contradiction, antithesis, more...

Phrases:
color opponency, more...

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Similar:
proponency, opination, apposition, opining, ostension, disputation, propoundment, objection, response, appointment, more...

Opposite:
synergy, cooperation, collaboration, partnership

Types:
antonym, contradiction, antithesis, more...

Phrases:
color opponency, more...



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