contrariety

[ kon-truh-rahy-i-tee ]

/ ˌkɒn trəˈraɪ ɪ ti /

the quality or state of being contrary.

something contrary or of opposite character; a contrary fact or statement.

Logic. the relation between contraries.

Origin of contrariety

1350–1400; Middle English contrariete (< Anglo-French) < Late Latin contrārietās. See contrary, -ity

non·con·tra·ri·e·ty, noun, plural non·con·tra·ri·e·ties.

She was low-spirited too, impatient with the contrariety of fate.

Lady Cassandra |Mrs George de Horne Vaizey
Happily there is no contrariety in the construction which has been placed upon this clause in the constitution.

Atrocious Judges |John Campbell, Baron Campbell
You cannot know very much, Miss Williamson, of the contrariety of things.

The Wizard's Son, Vol. 2(of 3) |Margaret Oliphant
But we repeat that the contrariety between them is not a necessary or universal one.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol. 68, No 422, December 1850 |Various

For then this league had no being, and a non-ens can have no contrariety.

The Covenants And The Covenanters |Various

contrariety

/ (ˌkɒntrəˈraɪətɪ) /

opposition between one thing and another; disagreement

an instance of such opposition; inconsistency; discrepancy

logic the relationship between two contraries