Confliction vs. Conflict — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Confliction and Conflict
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Confliction
A state of open, often prolonged fighting; a battle or war.
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Conflict
A serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one
The eternal conflict between the sexes
Doctors often come into conflict with politicians
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Confliction
A state of disagreement or disharmony between persons or ideas; a clash
A conflict over water rights.
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Conflict
Be incompatible or at variance; clash
The date for the match conflicted with a religious festival
Parents' and children's interests sometimes conflict
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Confliction
(Psychology) An emotional or mental disturbance resulting from the opposition or simultaneous functioning of mutually exclusive impulses, desires, or tendencies.
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Conflict
A state of open, often prolonged fighting; a battle or war.
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Confliction
Opposition between characters or forces in a work of drama or fiction, especially when motivating or shaping the action of the plot.
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Conflict
A state of disagreement or disharmony between persons or ideas; a clash
A conflict over water rights.
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Confliction
To be in or come into opposition; differ.
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Conflict
(Psychology) An emotional or mental disturbance resulting from the opposition or simultaneous functioning of mutually exclusive impulses, desires, or tendencies.
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Confliction
(Archaic) To engage in warfare.
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Conflict
Opposition between characters or forces in a work of drama or fiction, especially when motivating or shaping the action of the plot.
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Confliction
A conflicting condition; conflict.
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Conflict
To be in or come into opposition; differ.
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Conflict
(Archaic) To engage in warfare.
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Conflict
A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two or more opposing groups or individuals.
The conflict between the government and the rebels began three years ago.
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Conflict
An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.
I wanted to attend the meeting but there's a conflict in my schedule that day.
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Conflict
(intransitive) To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible
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Conflict
(intransitive) To overlap (with), as in a schedule.
Your conference call conflicts with my older one: please reschedule.
It appears that our schedules conflict.
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Conflict
A striking or dashing together; violent collision; as, a conflict of elements or waves.
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Conflict
A strife for the mastery; hostile contest; battle; struggle; fighting.
As soon as he [Atterbury] was himself again, he became eager for action and conflict.
An irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.
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Conflict
To strike or dash together; to meet in violent collision; to collide.
Fire and water conflicting together.
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Conflict
To maintain a conflict; to contend; to engage in strife or opposition; to struggle.
A man would be content to . . . conflict with great difficulties, in hopes of a mighty reward.
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Conflict
To be in opposition; to be contradictory.
The laws of the United States and of the individual States may, in some cases, conflict with each other.
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Conflict
An open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals);
The harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph
Police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs
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Conflict
Opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings;
He was immobilized by conflict and indecision
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Conflict
A hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war;
Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga
He lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement
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Conflict
A state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests;
His conflict of interest made him ineligible for the post
A conflict of loyalties
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Conflict
An incompatibility of dates or events;
He noticed a conflict in the dates of the two meetings
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Conflict
Opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot);
This form of conflict is essential to Mann's writing
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Conflict
A disagreement or argument about something important;
He had a dispute with his wife
There were irreconcilable differences
The familiar conflict between Republicans and Democrats
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Conflict
Be in conflict;
The two proposals conflict!
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Conflict
Go against, as of rules and laws;
He ran afould of the law
This behavior conflicts with our rules
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