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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Contrariety \Con`tra*ri"e*ty\n.; pl {Contrarieties}. [L.
contrarietas: cf F. contrari['e]t['e].]
1. The state or quality of being contrary; opposition;
repugnance; disagreement; antagonism.
There is a contrariety between those things that
conscience inclines to and those that entertain the
senses --South.
2. Something which is contrary to or inconsistent with
something else; an inconsistency.
How can these contrarieties agree? --Shak.
Syn: Inconsistency; discrepancy; repugnance.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
contrariety
n : the relation between contraries
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