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confrontations

confrontations is the plural of confrontation.

Meaning of confrontation

Noun

confrontation (countable and uncountable, plural confrontations)

  1. The act of confronting or challenging another, especially face to face.
    • During the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, this commitment brought him into frequent critical confrontation with entrenched forms of conservative thinking (in academic areas from history and social science to the more abstract domains of ethical and political philosophy)[…]1999, Nicholas Walker, “The Reorientation of Critical Theory: Habermas”, in Simon Glemdinning, editor, The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy, Routledge, →ISBN, page 489
    Synonyms:
    confrontal, showdown
  2. A conflict between armed forces.

Questions about confrontations

What is confrontations the plural of?
Confrontations is the plural of confrontation.

Words near confrontations in the dictionary

  1. confrontationality
  2. confrontationally
  3. confrontationism
  4. confrontationist
  5. confrontationists
  6. confrontations
  7. confrontative
  8. confronte
  9. confronted
  10. confronted one's demons
  11. confronter

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