CONTRADICTORINESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does contradictoriness mean? 

• CONTRADICTORINESS (noun)
  The noun CONTRADICTORINESS has 1 sense:

1. the relation that exists when opposites cannot coexist

  Familiarity information: CONTRADICTORINESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONTRADICTORINESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The relation that exists when opposites cannot coexist

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("contradictoriness" is a kind of...):

oppositeness; opposition (the relation between opposed entities)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "contradictoriness"):

incompatibility; inconsistency; mutual exclusiveness; repugnance (the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time)

Derivation:

contradictory (unable for both to exist or be true at the same time)

contradictory (in disagreement)

contradictory (of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false)