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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. the relation between contraries;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster] There is a contrariety between those things that conscience inclines to, and those that entertain the senses. --South. [1913 Webster] 2. Something which is contrary to, or inconsistent with, something else; an inconsistency. [1913 Webster] How can these contrarieties agree? --Shak. Syn: Inconsistency; discrepancy; repugnance. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

contrariety n 1: the relation between contraries
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

204 Moby Thesaurus words for "contrariety": abominability, accord, addition, adjunct, affairs, affiliation, affinity, alliance, antagonism, anteposition, antipathy, antithesis, approximation, assemblage, association, asymmetry, backlash, bad blood, baseness, beastliness, bond, clashing, closeness, collision, combination, competition, con, conflict, confrontation, confrontment, confutation, connectedness, connection, contemptibility, contention, contiguity, contradiction, contradistinction, contraposition, contrariness, contrast, counteraction, counterposition, counterworking, crankiness, cross-purposes, crotchetiness, crudeness, dealings, deduction, departure, despicability, despicableness, deviation, difference, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, disconformity, discongruity, discordance, discrepancy, discreteness, disequilibrium, disgustingness, disjunction, disparity, disproportion, dissension, dissent, dissimilarity, dissonance, distinction, distinctness, divergence, divergency, diversity, enmity, far cry, filiation, foulness, fractiousness, friction, fulsomeness, grossness, harshness, hatefulness, heinousness, heterogeneity, homology, hostility, ignobility, imbalance, inaccordance, inadequacy, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, inequality, inequity, inharmoniousness, inharmony, inimicalness, injustice, insufficiency, intercourse, interference, intimacy, irreconcilability, irregularity, junction, kick, liaison, link, linkage, linking, loathsomeness, mixture, mutual attraction, nastiness, nauseousness, nearness, negativeness, noisomeness, noncompliance, nonconcurrence, nonconformance, nonconformism, nonconformity, noncooperation, nonobservance, nonuniformity, noxiousness, objectionability, objectionableness, obnoxiousness, obscenity, obstinacy, odds, odiousness, offensiveness, opposing, opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy, originality, otherness, overbalance, perverseness, polar opposition, polarity, polarization, posing against, propinquity, protest, proximity, putridity, putridness, rapport, reaction, rebarbativeness, recalcitrance, recoil, recusance, recusancy, refractoriness, relatedness, relation, relations, relationship, renitency, repellence, repellency, repercussion, repugnance, repulsiveness, resistance, revolt, rivalry, rottenness, separateness, shortcoming, similarity, swimming upstream, sympathy, tie, tie-in, unbalance, unconformity, uncooperativeness, unevenness, unfair discrimination, union, unlikeness, unorthodoxy, unspeakableness, variance, variation, variegation, variety, vileness, vying