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metaconflicts

metaconflicts is the plural of metaconflict.

Meaning of metaconflict

Noun

metaconflict (countable and uncountable, plural metaconflicts)

  1. Conflict over whether or how to engage in a conflict.
    • You face this choice repeatedly throughout a conflict; it is so fundamental that parties often get stuck in cycles of metaconflict — conflicting over whether they will engage one another in the conflict.1985, Joyce L. Hocker, William W. Wilmot, Interpersonal conflict

Questions about metaconflicts

What is metaconflicts the plural of?
Metaconflicts is the plural of metaconflict.

Words near metaconflicts in the dictionary

  1. metacondition
  2. metaconditions
  3. metacone
  4. metacones
  5. metaconflict
  6. metaconflicts
  7. metaconglomerate
  8. metaconglomerates
  9. metaconid
  10. metaconids
  11. metaconjecture

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