disputation
/dɪsˌpjuːˈteɪʃən/
disputation noun: the act of disputing; a dispute or argument.
Noun
disputation (countable and uncountable, plural disputations)
- The act of disputing; a dispute or argument.
- And like the battles fought over baptism by sprinkling as opposed to total immersion, these modern-day disputations can be tedious.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 13
- A rhetorical exercise in which parties reason in opposition to each other over a belief or proposition.
disputation meaning in Tamil, Urdu, Malayalam and Kannada
disputation in Tamil
- disputation
- விவகாரம் vivakāram
disputation in Urdu
- حجت, مجادلہ
disputation in Malayalam
- dispute, debate, discu-ssion
- തർക്കം, വാദം, വാഗ്വാദം, വാക്സമരം, വായ്പ്പോര്, ചർച്ച
disputation in Kannada
- ವಾದವಿವಾದ, ಚರ್ಚೆ, ವಾಗ್ವಾದ
More languagesFewer languages
- disputation in Sanskrit
- वाक्य vākya
Forms of disputation
| plural | disputations |
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Origin of disputation
English dispute + -ation, from Old French disputation, from Latin disputatio.
Words formed from disputation
Words that rhyme with disputation
- station
- collation
- accommodation
- presentation
- derivation
- information
- modulation
- translation
- application
- fixation
- generation
- orientation
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- citation
- combination
- communication
- conjugation
- constellation
- determination
- elevation
- operation
- relation
- reservation
- alternation
- condensation
- conversation
- deviation
- excavation
- foliation
- formation
- foundation
- incarnation
- interpretation
- representation
- retardation
- speculation
- termination
- abbreviation
- adaptation
- articulation
- bifurcation
- concentration
- congregation
- declination
- degradation
- expectation
- extenuation
- gradation
- observation
- population
- preparation
- reconciliation
- rotation
- separation
- situation
- vexation
- vindication
- accumulation
- administration
- aggregation
- appropriation
Questions about disputation
- What does disputation mean?
- Disputation means the act of disputing; a dispute or argument.
- What is disputation in Tamil?
- Disputation in Tamil is விவகாரம் (vivakāram). See Disputation meaning in Tamil.
- What part of speech is disputation?
- Disputation is a noun.
- How do you pronounce disputation?
- Disputation is pronounced /dɪsˌpjuːˈteɪʃən/ (UK).
- What is the plural of disputation?
- The plural of disputation is disputations.
Words near disputation in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: disputation (page history and authors); விவகாரம் (Tamil) (page history and authors); disputation (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); disputation (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); disputation (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); वाक्य (Sanskrit) (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.
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