disputation
/dɪspjuːˈteɪʃ(ə)n
/ /dɪspjʊˈteɪʃ(ə)n/noun [mass noun]
1Debate or argument: promoting consensus rather than disputation [count noun]: a lengthy disputation about the rights and wrongs of a particular request...
- What they let slip, of course, is that theology, polemic, disputation, and argument were in fact a thriving industry in the early centuries of Islam.
- Religion, by contrast, is a principal site of impassioned argument and disputation.
- Now those who have attained even a little expertise in disputation and argument could reply to that on my behalf.
Synonyms
debate, discussion, dispute, argument, arguing, argumentation, altercation, wrangling, sparring, dissension, disagreement, disharmony, conflict, contention, controversy;
polemics
rare contestation, velitation
1.1Formal academic debate: the founding father of logical disputation [count noun]: scholastic disputations...
- Those of you who might naively imagine that vitriolic historical disputation is a transient phenomenon of Australian academe should think again.
- Even the content of this table talk is shared with the scholars' disputation.
- Everyone will have scholarly and literary pretensions, scholars will become self-opinionated and fond of endless disputation.
Derivatives
disputative
- The relevant disputative discriminator here was Dr McBain.
- At home, school and college, he acquired scholarly and disputative skills of a very high order.
- In a complex society, no matter how much one may desire to avoid the disputative aspect of life, occasions do arise where legal services become indispensable for survival.
Origin
Late Middle English: from Latin disputatio(n-), from the verb disputare (see dispute).