Usually means: Assertion of mutually opposing propositions.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. contradiction: Merriam-Webster
  2. contradiction: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. contradiction: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. contradiction: Collins English Dictionary
  5. contradiction: Vocabulary.com
  6. Contradiction, contradiction: Wordnik
  7. contradiction: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. contradiction: Wiktionary
  9. contradiction: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. contradiction: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. contradiction: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Contradiction, contradiction: Dictionary.com
  13. contradiction: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. contradiction: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Contradiction (album), Contradiction (disambiguation), Contradiction: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Contradiction: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. contradiction: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. contradiction: Rhymezone
  19. Contradiction: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. contradiction: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. contradiction: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  22. contradiction: FreeDictionary.org
  23. contradiction: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. contradiction: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. contradiction: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. contradiction: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  2. Contradiction: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (3 matching dictionaries)
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  2. Bouvier's Law Dictionary 1856 Edition (No longer online)
  3. Contradiction (logic), contradiction: Legal dictionary

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  1. contradiction: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Sociology (No longer online)
  2. contradiction: Glosario de términos filosóficos (en inglés)
  3. contradiction: Idioms
  4. contradiction: Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
  5. Dictionary of Sorts (No longer online)

Science (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Contradiction: Eric Weisstein's World of Mathematics
  2. contradiction, contradiction: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  3. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

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  1. Contradiction, contradiction: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See contradictions as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (countable, uncountable) The act of contradicting.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (countable) A logical inconsistency among two or more elements or propositions.
noun:  (logic, countable) A proposition that is false for all values of its propositional variables or Boolean atoms.

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