2398 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ kəntˈɛnʃən], [ kəntˈɛnʃən], [ k_ə_n_t_ˈɛ_n_ʃ_ə_n]

Related words: controversy, disputed, contentious, disputed article, contentious argument, controversial topic, argumentative discourse

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Similar words for contention:

• antagonism (noun)
• arguing (noun)
• argument (noun)
• argument for idea (noun)
• assertion (noun)
• battle (noun)
• communication (noun)
• competition (noun)
• conflict (noun)
• contention (noun)
• controversy (noun)
• debate (noun)
• dialectic (noun)
• difference (noun)
• disagreement (noun)
• discussion (noun)
• disharmony (noun)
• dispute (noun)
• dissension (noun)
• dissent (noun)
• dissentience (noun)
• dissertation (noun)
• dissidence (noun)
• dissonance (noun)
• emulation (noun)
• encounter (noun)
• enmity (noun)
• falling-out (noun)
• fight (noun)
• fighting (noun)
• imperviousness (noun)
• insusceptibility (noun)
• issue (noun)
• litigation (noun)
• opposition (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• polemic (noun)
• quarrel (noun)
• question (noun)
• race (noun)
• resistance (noun)
• rupture (noun)
• strife (noun)
• thesis (noun)
• unrest (noun)
• variance (noun)
• other relevant words (verb)
• other synonyms
• debate
• other relevant words
• other relevant words (noun)

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Synonyms for Contention:

• n.

  •
  • misunderstanding,
  • a war of words.
  •
  • demurrer,
  • advancement,
  • avowal,
  • sticking point,
  • plea,
  • ground,
  • focus,
  • claim,
  • charge,
  • item,
  • profession,
  • stand,
  • deposition,
  • starting point,
  • explanation,
  • allegation,
  • substance.
  •
  • difficulty,
  • wrangle,
  • tangle,
  • bicker.
  • antagonism (noun)
  • in-congruities,
  • dis-cord,
  • anti-thesis,
  • dis cord,
  • in congruity,
  • dis-cords,
  • in congruities,
  • in-congruity,
  • dis cords,
  • oppugnancies,
  • anti thesis.
  • arguing (noun)
  • arguing.
  • argument (noun)
  • ex change,
  • ex-postulation,
  • re-monstrances,
  • re monstrances,
  • ex-change,
  • de-fenses,
  • ex changes,
  • re-monstrance,
  • re monstrance,
  • line reasoning,
  • ex-changes,
  • ex-postulations,
  • ex postulations,
  • ex postulation,
  • de fenses,
  • argument.
  • argument for idea (noun)
  • rumpus,
  • hypothesis,
  • belief,
  • contestation,
  • position,
  • idea,
  • opinion,
  • view,
  • hurrah,
  • Maintaining,
  • affirmation.
  • assertion (noun)
  • stamp approval,
  • two cents' worths,
  • stressings,
  • asservations.
  • battle (noun)
  • havoc,
  • significant contact,
  • sortie,
  • scrimmage,
  • blitzkreig.
  • communication (noun)
  • contention.
  • competition (noun)
  • squabble,
  • quarrel,
  • wrangling,
  • pairing off,
  • static,
  • one on one,
  • struggle,
  • rivalry,
  • bone to pick,
  • set-to,
  • scene,
  • hostility,
  • altercation,
  • go for the gold,
  • scrap,
  • dissidence,
  • horse race,
  • feuding,
  • athletic event,
  • tug-of-war,
  • dog eat dog,
  • do or die,
  • concours,
  • quiz,
  • bone of contention,
  • belligerency,
  • combat,
  • beef,
  • disunity,
  • matchup,
  • hassle,
  • matchups,
  • disaccord,
  • discord,
  • go for it,
  • enmity,
  • athletic events.
  • conflict (noun)
  • clash,
  • harshness,
  • squall,
  • riot,
  • warfare,
  • clamor,
  • collision,
  • row,
  • imbroglio,
  • raucousness,
  • Discordancy,
  • hubbub,
  • dissonance,
  • commotion,
  • cacophony,
  • brawl.
  • contention (noun)
  • confrontation,
  • tilt,
  • protest,
  • disputation,
  • resistance.
  • controversy (noun)
  • dissentions.
  • debate (noun)
  • blahblahs,
  • blah blah,
  • controvertings,
  • blah-blahs,
  • re-flection,
  • de-liberation,
  • de bates,
  • re-buttings,
  • refutings,
  • re flections,
  • de liberation,
  • re flection,
  • de-liberations,
  • blahblah,
  • mootings,
  • de-bate,
  • re-flections,
  • rebuttings,
  • re buttings,
  • de-bates,
  • re butting,
  • de liberations,
  • de bate,
  • blah blahs,
  • re-butting.
  • dialectic (noun)
  • logical argument,
  • question-and-answer method.
  • difference (noun)
  • dustup,
  • brush-off,
  • brannigan,
  • dustups,
  • brushoff.
  • disagreement (noun)
  • divisiveness,
  • rejection,
  • defiance,
  • repudiation,
  • complaint,
  • challenge.
  • discussion (noun)
  • dis-courses,
  • groupthinks,
  • re view,
  • inter-view,
  • re views,
  • dis-course,
  • ex amination,
  • inter-views,
  • inter views,
  • re-views,
  • re-view,
  • inter view,
  • ex-aminations,
  • ex aminations,
  • dis courses,
  • dis course.
  • disharmony (noun)
  • dis-harmonies,
  • dis harmony,
  • in-harmoniousness,
  • dissonancies,
  • dis harmonies,
  • in harmoniousnesses,
  • inharmoniousnesses,
  • dis-harmony,
  • in-harmoniousnesses,
  • in harmoniousness.
  • dispute (noun)
  • bone contention,
  • up roar,
  • up roars,
  • difference opinion,
  • up-roars,
  • up-roar,
  • flareup.
  • dissension (noun)
  • bad vibe,
  • sour notes.
  • dissent (noun)
  • dis sent,
  • non-agreement,
  • non agreement,
  • non concurrences,
  • non-concurrences,
  • non conformisms,
  • mis belief,
  • dis-sent,
  • mis-beliefs,
  • non conformities,
  • mis-belief,
  • un orthodoxy,
  • non concurrence,
  • non conformism,
  • un orthodoxies,
  • mis beliefs,
  • hetero doxies,
  • non agreements,
  • dis sents,
  • un-orthodoxies,
  • far cries,
  • poles aparts,
  • hetero-doxies,
  • non-conformisms,
  • un-orthodoxy,
  • Non-concurrence,
  • nonconcurrences,
  • nonconformisms,
  • NOPES,
  • non-conformities,
  • misbeliefs,
  • dis-sents,
  • non-conformism,
  • hetero doxy,
  • hetero-doxy,
  • non conformity,
  • nonagreements,
  • non-agreements.
  • dissentience (noun)
  • dis sentiences,
  • dis-sentiences,
  • dis-sentience,
  • dis sentience.
  • dissertation (noun)
  • commentary,
  • conjecture,
  • essay,
  • interpolation,
  • examination,
  • criticism,
  • postulation,
  • dissertation,
  • critique,
  • research,
  • premise,
  • analysis,
  • article.
  • dissidence (noun)
  • dis peace,
  • dispeaces,
  • dis-peace,
  • dis peaces,
  • dis-peaces.
  • dissonance (noun)
  • dis sonance,
  • dis-sonance,
  • dis parities,
  • dis-parity,
  • dis parity,
  • dis sonances,
  • in consistencies,
  • in-consistencies,
  • dis-parities,
  • dis-sonances,
  • in-consistency,
  • in consistency.
  • emulation (noun)
  • emulation.
  • encounter (noun)
  • velitations.
  • enmity (noun)
  • coldness,
  • spitefulness,
  • unfriendliness,
  • contrariety,
  • antipathy,
  • Adverseness,
  • discordance,
  • rancor,
  • Averseness,
  • resentment,
  • bitterness,
  • dislike,
  • malice,
  • surliness,
  • combativeness,
  • wrath,
  • friction,
  • hard feelings,
  • tension,
  • quarrelsomeness,
  • Inimicality,
  • coolness,
  • malevolence,
  • loathing,
  • incompatibility,
  • animosity,
  • bad blood,
  • alienation.
  • falling-out (noun)
  • fallingout,
  • sharp word.
  • fight (noun)
  • free for all,
  • sparring matches.
  • fighting (noun)
  • punch outs,
  • brawlings,
  • hell broke looses.
  • imperviousness (noun)
  • un susceptibility,
  • un-susceptibility,
  • un-susceptibilities,
  • un susceptibilities.
  • insusceptibility (noun)
  • in susceptibility,
  • in-susceptibilities,
  • in-susceptibility,
  • in susceptibilities.
  • issue (noun)
  • matter contention,
  • point departure.
  • litigation (noun)
  • pro-cesses,
  • pro cess,
  • pro-cess.
  • opposition (noun)
  • counter-attacks,
  • obstructiveness,
  • Antinomy,
  • counter-attack,
  • Antinomies,
  • negativism.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • encounter,
  • feud,
  • squabblings,
  • Apriorism,
  • Misbelief,
  • tussle,
  • fighting,
  • split-up,
  • disharmony,
  • heterodoxy,
  • assertion,
  • unorthodoxies,
  • controversy,
  • Velitation,
  • say so,
  • Dissonancy,
  • competition,
  • Nope,
  • fight,
  • sketch,
  • sharp words,
  • violence,
  • issue,
  • unorthodoxy,
  • race,
  • roughhouse,
  • thesis,
  • sparring match,
  • break-up,
  • Mooting,
  • litigation,
  • different strokes,
  • words,
  • flak,
  • dissent,
  • matter of contention,
  • wranglings,
  • hatred,
  • TODO,
  • dogfight,
  • statics,
  • grudge,
  • groupthink,
  • dissention,
  • nonagreement,
  • punch out,
  • falling-out,
  • clinkers,
  • to do,
  • unrest,
  • Oppugnancy,
  • stamp of approval,
  • blah-blah,
  • two cents' worth,
  • miff,
  • predications,
  • rupture,
  • Nonconcurrence,
  • Dispeace,
  • dissension,
  • dogfights,
  • disagreement,
  • nonconformism,
  • opposition,
  • polarity,
  • inharmoniousness,
  • line of reasoning,
  • poles apart,
  • clinker,
  • sour note,
  • bickerings,
  • dispute,
  • asservation,
  • bad vibes,
  • predication,
  • questioning,
  • dialectic,
  • heterodoxies,
  • mid-course correction,
  • far cry,
  • Mouthfuls,
  • refusal,
  • conflict,
  • war,
  • fisticuffs,
  • polemic,
  • duel,
  • unharmoniousness,
  • antagonism,
  • hell broke loose,
  • battle,
  • point of departure,
  • question,
  • catfight,
  • flare up,
  • discussion,
  • non-conformity,
  • difference,
  • bustup,
  • strife,
  • debate,
  • Pleadings,
  • Wars,
  • asseveration.
  • polemic (noun)
  • gin,
  • GINS,
  • crusher,
  • OUTS,
  • finisher,
  • knockdown,
  • fallings,
  • crushers,
  • face off,
  • knockdowns,
  • knock down and drag out,
  • finishers.
  • quarrel (noun)
  • catfights.
  • question (noun)
  • demurral,
  • questions.
  • race (noun)
  • re lays,
  • re-lays,
  • re-lay,
  • re lay.
  • resistance (noun)
  • striking back,
  • retardation,
  • imperviousness,
  • impedances,
  • impeding,
  • impedance.
  • rupture (noun)
  • break ups,
  • split ups,
  • split-ups,
  • break-ups,
  • splitups,
  • splitup,
  • bustups.
  • strife (noun)
  • tug war.
  • thesis (noun)
  • pre supposition,
  • apriorisms,
  • hypo-thesis,
  • sur-mise,
  • pro positions,
  • pre-supposition,
  • pre-mises,
  • pre mises,
  • pre mise,
  • pro position,
  • pro-positions,
  • sur mise,
  • pre suppositions,
  • sur mises,
  • pre-mise,
  • hypo thesis,
  • sur-mises.
  • unrest (noun)
  • moodiness,
  • up set.
  • variance (noun)
  • mid course correction,
  • about face,
  • different stroke,
  • mid-course corrections,
  • un harmoniousness,
  • un harmoniousnesses,
  • un-harmoniousness,
  • midcourse corrections,
  • severings,
  • sunderings,
  • un-harmoniousnesses,
  • mid course corrections,
  • unharmoniousnesses,
  • midcourse correction.

• v.

  • Other relevant words: (verb)
  • contest,
  • speech.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • meeting,
  • run-in,
  • rhubarb,
  • declaration,
  • Inharmony,
  • side issue,
  • dissentience,
  • point of order.
  •
  • sidelight,
  • tiff.
  •
  • variance,
  • schism,
  • spat.
  •
  • faction.
  •
  • thrust.
  •
  • word.
  • debate
  • Polemics.
  • Other relevant words:
  • congress,
  • thrusting,
  • storey,
  • holy writ,
  • translation,
  • casing,
  • bash,
  • carry,
  • partition,
  • mysterious,
  • contentiousness,
  • servicing,
  • impassioned,
  • razz,
  • display case,
  • wayward,
  • reel,
  • perverted,
  • chance,
  • hobby,
  • ancestry,
  • depicted object,
  • heart and soul,
  • wonder,
  • saturnalia,
  • enlarge,
  • judicial decision,
  • causa,
  • make for,
  • deviltry,
  • note,
  • grapnel,
  • stock,
  • bust,
  • overprotect,
  • angle of inclination,
  • fascinate,
  • au revoir,
  • chip,
  • interlocking,
  • mutual exclusiveness,
  • dividing line,
  • peevishness,
  • excite,
  • bacchanal,
  • emergence,
  • showcase,
  • try,
  • interposition,
  • convention,
  • natural action,
  • conviction,
  • fierceness,
  • moot,
  • disunited,
  • amplify,
  • rush along,
  • peer,
  • undercoat,
  • infringe,
  • poke,
  • part,
  • detonate,
  • concentrate,
  • ire,
  • idol,
  • primer,
  • sound judgment,
  • chafe,
  • luggage,
  • cathexis,
  • extend,
  • content,
  • trump,
  • self-denial,
  • rive,
  • surmisal,
  • animus,
  • stew,
  • meshing,
  • shake up,
  • polarisation,
  • situation,
  • fleck,
  • rill,
  • snipe,
  • conundrum,
  • breaker point,
  • rioting,
  • look at,
  • preface,
  • adieu,
  • lawsuit,
  • booking,
  • perfervid,
  • anchor,
  • run aground,
  • aggress,
  • make out,
  • stage,
  • job,
  • break up,
  • exact,
  • drunken revelry,
  • instance,
  • table service,
  • dot,
  • epitome,
  • ail,
  • iciness,
  • grappler,
  • class,
  • clock out,
  • military action,
  • deliberate,
  • stick out,
  • department of defense,
  • percentage point,
  • chilliness,
  • turn over,
  • political campaign,
  • refutation,
  • active,
  • assembly line,
  • rigorousness,
  • necessitate,
  • embellish,
  • skeptical,
  • run into,
  • bump around,
  • communication channel,
  • execute,
  • defense department,
  • nip,
  • consistence,
  • pursuit,
  • resume,
  • earth,
  • urging,
  • expo,
  • disputative,
  • thought,
  • imperturbableness,
  • cornerstone,
  • recreational,
  • war-ridden,
  • message,
  • noise,
  • unchanging,
  • agonistical,
  • charge up,
  • status,
  • decree,
  • signal,
  • place,
  • square up,
  • occult,
  • fervid,
  • hightail it,
  • outpouring,
  • puff,
  • character,
  • go,
  • springboard,
  • speculative,
  • yell,
  • indicate,
  • pointedness,
  • goodbye,
  • spate,
  • cartoon,
  • proclivity,
  • hang-up,
  • immortal,
  • runnel,
  • coming upon,
  • seam,
  • clank,
  • stuff,
  • cut,
  • gripe,
  • pain,
  • good-by,
  • temper,
  • estimation,
  • disposal,
  • mystic,
  • shin,
  • promotion,
  • internal representation,
  • bully off,
  • introduce,
  • brouhaha,
  • dialectical,
  • foundation,
  • crusade,
  • melody,
  • inquiring,
  • incommode,
  • commove,
  • construct,
  • scrutiny,
  • business line,
  • supreme being,
  • librate,
  • standard,
  • ruction,
  • impression,
  • harry,
  • nonconformity,
  • lyric,
  • force,
  • hunt down,
  • line of merchandise,
  • articulate,
  • nidus,
  • shot,
  • outlet,
  • malignancy,
  • rigour,
  • date,
  • chivvy,
  • confluence,
  • blame,
  • hypothesise,
  • beat,
  • pieplant,
  • heresy,
  • clamshell,
  • mental attitude,
  • copse,
  • test,
  • equate,
  • help,
  • logos,
  • fistfight,
  • sectionalisation,
  • armed service,
  • annunciation,
  • representative,
  • beset,
  • course,
  • bother,
  • wrestling,
  • serve,
  • interpreter,
  • chronicle,
  • motive,
  • place upright,
  • institute,
  • rivulet,
  • so long,
  • acrimony,
  • middle,
  • perspicacity,
  • jumble,
  • prototype,
  • madcap,
  • muster up,
  • process,
  • government issue,
  • pugnacity,
  • seeing red,
  • condition,
  • tumult,
  • delivery,
  • assessment,
  • kerfuffle,
  • pair,
  • set on,
  • unravel,
  • stock split,
  • outside,
  • abomination,
  • detail,
  • terra firma,
  • ado,
  • rivet,
  • severance,
  • subject field,
  • onward motion,
  • teaching,
  • inwardness,
  • rag,
  • scat,
  • focusing,
  • subnormality,
  • mates,
  • discourse,
  • bleed,
  • abbreviated,
  • angle of dip,
  • spokesperson,
  • defense team,
  • gunpoint,
  • airstream,
  • suffer,
  • essence,
  • vocalisation,
  • cope,
  • viewpoint,
  • check,
  • bait,
  • fend,
  • willful,
  • hugger-mugger,
  • contradiction in terms,
  • dominate,
  • release,
  • priming,
  • self-willed,
  • litigate,
  • dry land,
  • opposite,
  • pelt along,
  • possibility,
  • persuade,
  • event,
  • lieu,
  • fit,
  • mistaking,
  • manoeuvre,
  • concenter,
  • judging,
  • aspect,
  • fury,
  • stand up,
  • depth psychology,
  • payoff,
  • muss,
  • cotton gin,
  • cannonball along,
  • bear,
  • vehemence,
  • cloak-and-dagger,
  • receive,
  • severeness,
  • maleficence,
  • jabbing,
  • outdoor stage,
  • motion,
  • chalk out,
  • rationale,
  • difficultness,
  • fermentation,
  • ladder,
  • shoot,
  • frigidity,
  • location,
  • ferocity,
  • driving force,
  • hotfoot,
  • solid ground,
  • consign,
  • contravene,
  • inclination of an orbit,
  • maliciousness,
  • self-renunciation,
  • impart,
  • address,
  • brushwood,
  • voice communication,
  • logical system,
  • imploring,
  • focussing,
  • hypothecate,
  • tizzy,
  • gibe,
  • adaptation,
  • crease,
  • slipstream,
  • lurch,
  • tantalise,
  • descent,
  • fire,
  • pedigree,
  • demand,
  • furiousness,
  • detest,
  • arrivederci,
  • temperament,
  • maze,
  • range,
  • rock candy,
  • flurry,
  • clangour,
  • emerge,
  • proposal,
  • pains,
  • frazzle,
  • mother,
  • grilling,
  • tune,
  • clamber,
  • beat up,
  • orphic,
  • forward motion,
  • resolve,
  • spatial relation,
  • retainer,
  • vocalise,
  • din,
  • aggrandise,
  • disturb,
  • erupt,
  • petition,
  • appointment,
  • lash out,
  • bitch,
  • decimal point,
  • harness,
  • count,
  • anarchy,
  • clause,
  • announcement,
  • involve,
  • put out,
  • national,
  • abide,
  • nitty-gritty,
  • mobilize,
  • blare,
  • buck,
  • emplacement,
  • hush-hush,
  • aggressiveness,
  • betoken,
  • public violence,
  • cable,
  • pedestal,
  • regulate,
  • examine,
  • off,
  • opponent,
  • drag,
  • mystery,
  • land,
  • antiaircraft gun,
  • manner of speaking,
  • progression,
  • abstract thought,
  • core,
  • go forth,
  • entangle,
  • judicial proceeding,
  • atmospheric static,
  • demur,
  • catch,
  • lay claim,
  • act upon,
  • set off,
  • strand,
  • lecture,
  • mischievousness,
  • thorniness,
  • head for the hills,
  • pass,
  • meekness,
  • precipitant,
  • streamlet,
  • divine service,
  • foe,
  • prime,
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  • divinity,
  • bring out,
  • line of credit,
  • open,
  • return,
  • offend.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • hasty,
  • scrummage,
  • caviling,
  • fracas,
  • rift,
  • apple of discord,
  • war whoop,
  • negation,
  • joust,
  • rallye,
  • scrum,
  • bickering,
  • disputed point,
  • horse-race,
  • fuss,
  • case,
  • Tom-tom,
  • peppery,
  • campaigning,
  • lawlessness,
  • rally,
  • casuistry,
  • intrigue,
  • rival,
  • pronouncement,
  • falling out,
  • embroilment,
  • representation,
  • service,
  • division,
  • antithesis,
  • truculent,
  • polar opposition,
  • Renitency,
  • goddess,
  • war of words,
  • vexed question,
  • snarl,
  • action,
  • rush,
  • apologetics,
  • opposing,
  • crossing,
  • slogan,
  • story,
  • disposition,
  • hate,
  • contrast,
  • open question,
  • face-off,
  • clashing,
  • opposure,
  • carping,
  • reasoning,
  • postulate,
  • froward,
  • polemical,
  • striving,
  • free-for-all,
  • theory,
  • Impugnation,
  • Anteposition,
  • competitor,
  • Confrontment,
  • noncooperation,
  • quarrelsome,
  • challenger,
  • MATTER IN DISPUTE,
  • brief,
  • fray,
  • Disceptation,
  • mischief,
  • Barney,
  • logic,
  • contravention,
  • scuffle,
  • match,
  • disputatious,
  • rock,
  • malignity,
  • affidavit,
  • bugle,
  • skirmish,
  • way of thinking,
  • premiss,
  • Contraversion,
  • Contraposition,
  • traversal,
  • affray,
  • vendetta,
  • averment,
  • password,
  • point at issue,
  • difference of opinion,
  • moot point,
  • precept,
  • combative,
  • independent variable,
  • perverse,
  • insistence,
  • quodlibet,
  • rebuttal,
  • god,
  • Oppugnation,
  • importunity,
  • jangle,
  • pleading,
  • active service,
  • blood feud,
  • rub,
  • undercurrent,
  • lean,
  • leaning,
  • scramble,
  • clarion,
  • disabuse,
  • line,
  • foot race,
  • contender,
  • litigious,
  • disagree,
  • desideratum,
  • pandemonium,
  • point of view,
  • infighting,
  • impetuous,
  • spar,
  • crosscurrent,
  • flyting,
  • defence,
  • disorder,
  • Vying,
  • sway,
  • argumentative,
  • counterworking,
  • belligerent,
  • split,
  • donnybrook,
  • engagement,
  • standing against,
  • contentious,
  • question mark,
  • notion,
  • contrary,
  • Squabbling,
  • argumentation,
  • casus belli,
  • grapple,
  • apology,
  • Incompatibleness,
  • warlike,
  • counteraction,
  • apologia,
  • list,
  • field of inquiry,
  • careen,
  • rappel,
  • secret,
  • testimony,
  • broil,
  • polarization,
  • fiery,
  • watchword,
  • Logomachy,
  • Bucking,
  • Quarrelling,
  • brush,
  • defense,
  • battle cry,
  • point in question,
  • bellicose,
  • inclination,
  • parameter,
  • pugnacious,
  • trumpet,
  • marathon,
  • deviance,
  • passage of arms,
  • controversial,
  • unlikeness,
  • despitefulness,
  • belligerence,
  • hotheaded,
  • Renitence,
  • hassel,
  • deity,
  • faultfinding,
  • kriegspiel,
  • pibroch,
  • sweepstakes,
  • literary argument,
  • head wind,
  • dust-up,
  • repugnance,
  • scrappy,
  • unpleasantness,
  • moot case,
  • spite,
  • disunion,
  • captious,
  • contradiction,
  • militant,
  • Impugnment,
  • Insusceptibility,
  • Porism,
  • war cry,
  • version,
  • proposition,
  • estrangement,
  • Hostilities,
  • sedition,
  • jar,
  • competitiveness,
  • enigma,
  • rule,
  • influence.

Paraphrases for Contention:

• Forward Entailment

  • Noun, singular or mass
    assertion, disagreement, dispute.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    assertiveness, assumption, bickering, characterization, competition, complaint, confirmation, confrontation, contestation, conviction, discuss, dissertation, hypothesis, idea, notice, notion, opinion, position, presumption, proposition, reaffirmation, suggestion, supposition, view, viewpoint, wrangling, Lice, Restraining.

• Other Related

  • Proper noun, singular
    argument, containment.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    affirmation, argument, argumentation, claim, conflict, containment, contest, controversy, debate, discord, discussion, disharmony, dissension, dissent, divergence, friction, litigation, pretence, pretension, statement, strife, thesis, divisiveness.

Homophones for Contention:

• condonation, continuation, contamination, condemnation.

Hypernym for Contention:

• n.

  • communication
    submission.

Hyponym for Contention:

• n.

  • communication
    averment, assertion, asseveration.