contrariety
noun
con·tra·ri·ety ˌkän-trə-ˈrī-ə-tē 
plural contrarieties
1
: the quality or state of being contrary
2
: something contrary
Synonyms
- contrariness
- oppositeness
- opposition
- polarity
See all Synonyms & Antonyms 
Example Sentences
the inescapable contrariety of her chief interests: food and a desire for supermodel svelteness
Word History
Etymology
Middle English contrariete, from Anglo-French contrarieté, from Late Latin contrarietat-, contrarietas, from Latin contrarius contrary
First Known Use
14th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1
contrariety
noun
as in opposition
the quality or state of being as different as possible the inescapable contrariety of her chief interests: food and a desire for supermodel svelteness Synonyms & Similar Words
Relevance
- opposition
- oppositeness
- polarity
- divergence
- contrariness
- unlikeness
- dissimilarity
- conflict
- variance
- contradictoriness
- disparity
- antithesis
- inequality
- incongruity
- discrepancy
- antipode
- incompatibility
- incongruence
- disagreement
- incongruousness
- disparateness
Antonyms & Near Antonyms
- similarity
- congruity
- sameness
- similitude
- resemblance
- agreement
- identicalness
- conformity
- parallelism
- correspondence
- likeness
- alikeness
- correlation
- relationship
- analogousness
- enteritides
- enteritidis
- enteritis
- enteritises
- enterlude
- entero-
- enterobacteria
- enterobacteriaceaes
- enterobacterial
- enterobacterium
- enterobiases
- enterobiasis
- enterobii
- enterobiuses
- enteroceles
- enterochromaffin
- enterococcal
- enterococci
- enterococcus
- enterocoel
- Enterocoela
- enterocoele
- enterocoeles
- enterocoelic
- enterocoelous