Meaning of CONFRONTATION

Pronunciation:			`kânfrun'teyshun
WordNet Dictionary
	Definition:		[n]  a focussed comparison; bringing together for a careful comparison [n]  the act of opposing groups confronting each other; "the government was not ready for a confrontation with the unions"; "the invaders encountered stiff opposition" [n]  a hostile disagreement face-to-face [n]  discord resulting from a clash of ideas or opinions [n]  a bold challenge
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	Synonyms:		encounter, opposition, showdown
	See Also:		challenge, comparing, comparison, disagreement, discord, dissension, resistance, strikebreaking
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
	Definition:		\Con`fron*ta"tion\, n. [LL. confrontatio.] Act of confrontating. --H.Swinburne.
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Thesaurus Terms
	Related Terms:		allegory, analogy, antagonism, anteposition, antipathy, antithesis, audience, balancing, bargaining, bargaining session, clashing, collision, collision course, comparative anatomy, comparative degree, comparative grammar, comparative judgment, comparative linguistics, comparative literature, comparative method, compare, comparing, comparison, conclave, confab, confabulation, conference, conflict, confrontment, congress, consultation, contention, contradiction, contradistinction, contraindication, contraposition, contrariety, contrast, contrastiveness, convention, correlation, council, council fire, council of war, counterposition, cross-purposes, disagreement, discrepancy, discussion, distinction, distinctiveness, encounter, exchange of views, eyeball-to-eyeball encounter, high-level talk, hostility, huddle, inconsistency, inimicalness, interchange of views, interview, joining, likening, matching, meeting, metaphor, narrow squeak, near thing, near-miss, negotiations, news conference, opposing, oppositeness, opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy, palaver, parallelism, parley, perversity, polar opposition, polarity, polarization, posing against, pourparler, powwow, press conference, proportion, relation, rencontre, repugnance, seance, session, showdown, simile, similitude, sitting, summit, summit conference, summitry, trope of comparison, weighing