Word.ws English Dictionary

contradictoriness

contradictoriness noun: the state or quality of being contradictory.

Noun

contradictoriness (uncountable)

  1. The state or quality of being contradictory.
    • The contradictoriness and multifacetedness of identity is a constant theme in a play which deals so centrally with ideas of plays, illusion, rôle-playing and theatricality.1991, Michael Mangan, “‘Break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue’”, in A Preface to Shakespeare’s Tragedies (Preface Books), London; New York, N.Y.: Longman, →ISBN, part 3 (Critical Analysis: […])...

Origin of contradictoriness

From contradictory + -ness.

Questions about contradictoriness

What does contradictoriness mean?
Contradictoriness means the state or quality of being contradictory.
What part of speech is contradictoriness?
Contradictoriness is a noun.

Words near contradictoriness in the dictionary

  1. contradictorial
  2. contradictoriality
  3. contradictorially
  4. contradictories
  5. contradictorily
  6. contradictoriness
  7. contradictors
  8. contradictory
  9. contradictory antonym
  10. contradictory antonyms
  11. contradicts

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: contradictoriness (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “contradictoriness.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/contradictoriness. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.