Opposition vs. Conjunction — What's the Difference?

The act of opposing or resisting.

The act of joining.

The condition of being in conflict; antagonism

The state of being joined.

Placement opposite to or in contrast with another.

A joint or simultaneous occurrence; concurrence

Something that serves as an obstacle.

One resulting from or embodying a union; a combination

Often Opposition A political party or an organized group opposed to the group, party, or government in power.

The part of speech that serves to connect words, phrases, clauses, or sentences.

The position of two celestial objects when their longitude differs by 180°, especially a configuration in which the sun and a superior planet or the moon are on opposite sides of Earth.

Any of the words belonging to this part of speech, such as and, but, as, and because.

The position of the superior planet or the moon in this configuration.

(Astronomy) The position of two celestial objects when they have the same celestial longitude. As viewed from Earth, two objects in conjunction will appear to be close to each other in the sky.

(Logic) The relation existing between two propositions having an identical subject and predicate but differing in quantity, quality, or both.

A compound proposition that has components joined by the word and or its symbol and is true only if both or all the components are true.

(Linguistics) Contrast in a language between two phonemes or other linguistically important elements.

The relationship between the components of a conjunction.

The action of opposing or of being in conflict.

The act of joining, or condition of being joined.

An opposite or contrasting position.

(grammar) A word used to join other words or phrases together into sentences. The specific conjunction used shows how the two joined parts are related.

(astronomy) The apparent relative position of two celestial bodies when one is at an angle of 180 degrees from the other as seen from the Earth.

Cooccurrence; coincidence.

(politics) A political party or movement opposed to the party or government in power.

(astronomy) The alignment of two bodies in the solar system such that they have the same longitude when seen from Earth.

(legal) In United States intellectual property law, a proceeding in which an interested party seeks to prevent the registration of a trademark or patent.

(astrology) An aspect in which planets are in close proximity to one another.

(chess) A position in which the player on the move must yield with his king allowing his opponent to advance with his own king.

(logic) The proposition resulting from the combination of two or more propositions using the ∧ ($\backslash and$) operator.

(logic) The difference of quantity or quality between two propositions having the same subject and predicate.

A place where multiple things meet

The act of opposing; an attempt to check, restrain, or defeat; resistance.

(obsolete) Sexual intercourse.

The state of being placed over against; situation so as to front something else.

The act of conjoining, or the state of being conjoined, united, or associated; union; association; league.

Repugnance; contrariety of sentiment, interest, or purpose; antipathy.

A connective or connecting word; an indeclinable word which serves to join together sentences, clauses of a sentence, or words; as, and, but, if.

That which opposes; an obstacle; specifically, the aggregate of persons or things opposing; hence, in politics and parliamentary practice, the party opposed to the party in power.

The temporal property of two things happening at the same time;

The situation of a heavenly body with respect to another when in the part of the heavens directly opposite to it; especially, the position of a planet or satellite when its longitude differs from that of the sun 180°; - signified by the symbol ; as,

The state of being joined together

The relation between two propositions when, having the same subject and predicate, they differ in quantity, or in quality, or in both; or between two propositions which have the same matter but a different form.

An uninflected function word that serves to conjoin words or phrases or clauses or sentences

The action of opposing something that you disapprove or disagree with;

The grammatical relation between linguistic units (words or phrases or clauses) that are connected by a conjunction

The relation between opposed entities

(astronomy) apparent meeting or passing of two or more celestial bodies in the same degree of the zodiac

The act of opposing groups confronting each other;

Something that joins or connects

A contestant that you are matched against

A body of people united in opposing something

A direction opposite to another

An armed adversary (especially a member of an opposing military force);

A political party opposed to the party in power and prepared to replace it if elected;