confrontation
English
Etymology
From Middle French. Morphologically confront + -ation
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˌkɒn.fɹənˈteɪ.ʃən/
Audio (UK) (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˌkɑn.fɹənˈteɪ.ʃən/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˌkɔn.fɹənˈtæɪ.ʃən/
- Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
confrontation (countable and uncountable, plural confrontations)
- The act of confronting or challenging another, especially face to face.
- Synonym: confrontal
- 1999, Nicholas Walker, “The Reorientation of Critical Theory: Habermas”, in Simon Glemdinning, editor, The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy, Routledge, →ISBN, page 489:
- 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) […]
- A conflict between armed forces.
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Translations
the act of confronting or challenging another, especially face-to-face
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a conflict between armed forces
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Further reading
- “confrontation”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/
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Related terms
Further reading
- “confrontation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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