strife
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source: Today's Civil Strife Is Rooted in Economic Frustration and Fallacy - Foundation for Economic Education
/icons/point.icon DISCORD, STRIFE, CONFLICT, CONTENTION, DISSENSION, VARIANCE mean a state or condition marked by a lack of agreement or harmony.
DISCORD implies an intrinsic or essential lack of harmony producing quarreling, factiousness, or antagonism.
e.g. a political party long racked by discord
STRIFE emphasizes a struggle for superiority rather than the incongruity or incompatibility of the persons or things involved.
e.g. during his brief reign the empire was never free of civil strife
CONFLICT usually stresses the action of forces in opposition but in static applications implies an irreconcilability as of duties or desires.
e.g. the conflict of freedom and responsibility
CONTENTION applies to strife or competition that shows itself in quarreling, disputing, or controversy.
e.g. several points of contention about the new zoning law
DISSENSION implies strife or discord and stresses a division into factions.
e.g. religious dissension threatened to split the colony
VARIANCE implies a clash between persons or things owing to a difference in nature, opinion, or interest.
e.g. cultural variances that work against a national identity
noun
angry or bitter disagreement over fundamental issues; conflict:
｟かたく｠ 闘争, 争い, 衝突, 紛争(conflict); 不和, 反目, けんか
e.g. strife within the community
e.g. ethnic and civil strife.
ORIGIN
Middle English: shortening of Old French estrif (related to Old French estriver ‘strive’).