Antonym vs. Contradiction

Antonymnoun

(semantics) A word which has the opposite meaning of another word.

‘“rich” is an antonym of “poor”; “full” is an antonym of “empty”’;

Contradictionnoun

The act of contradicting.

‘His contradiction of the proposal was very interesting.’;

Antonymnoun

A word that describes one end of a scale, while its opposite describes the other end, such as large versus small; a gradable antonym.

Contradictionnoun

(countable) A statement that contradicts itself, i.e., a statement that makes a claim that the same thing is true and that it is false at the same time and in the same senses of the terms.

‘There is a contradiction in Clarence Page's statement that a woman should have the right to choose and decide for herself whether to have an abortion, and at the same time she should not have that right.’; ‘There is a contradiction in what you say: she can't be both married and single.’;

Antonymnoun

A word of opposite meaning; a counterterm; - used as a correlative of synonym.

Contradictionnoun

(countable) A logical inconsistency among two or more elements or propositions.

Antonymnoun

two words that express opposing concepts;

‘to him the opposite of gay was depressed’;

Contradictionnoun

A proposition that is false for all values of its variables.

Contradictionnoun

An assertion of the contrary to what has been said or affirmed; denial of the truth of a statement or assertion; contrary declaration; gainsaying.

‘His fair demandsShall be accomplished without contradiction.’;

Contradictionnoun

Direct opposition or repugnancy; inconsistency; incongruity or contrariety; one who, or that which, is inconsistent.

‘can he make deathless death? That were to makeStrange contradiction.’; ‘We state our experience and then we come to a manly resolution of acting in contradiction to it.’; ‘Both parts of a contradiction can not possibly be true.’; ‘Of contradictions infinite the slave.’;

Contradictionnoun

opposition between two conflicting forces or ideas

Contradictionnoun

(logic) a statement that is necessarily false;

‘the statement `he is brave and he is not brave' is a contradiction’;

Contradictionnoun

the speech act of contradicting someone;

‘he spoke as if he thought his claims were immune to contradiction’;

Contradiction

In traditional logic, a contradiction occurs when a proposition conflicts either with itself or established fact. It is often used as a tool to detect disingenuous beliefs and bias.