different between hypocrite vs contradiction

English

Etymology

Old French ypocrite (Modern French hypocrite), from Ecclesiastical Latin hypocrita, from Ancient Greek ????????? (hupokrit?s, “actor, hypocrite”), from ??????????? (hupokrínomai, “I answer, act, feign”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?h?.p?.k??t/

Noun

hypocrite (plural hypocrites)

1. Someone who practices hypocrisy, who pretends to hold beliefs, or whose actions are not consistent with their claimed beliefs. [from early 13th c.]

Synonyms

• flip-flopper

Translations

See also

• two-faced
• double standard
• hypocritical

Anagrams

• rheotypic

French

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /i.p?.k?it/

Adjective

hypocrite (plural hypocrites)

1. hypocritical

Derived terms

• hypocritement

Noun

hypocrite m or f (plural hypocrites)

1. hypocrite

Synonyms

• (informal) faux-cul, faux cul, faux jeton

Further reading

• “hypocrite” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• chypriote, Chypriote

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French contradiction, from Latin contr?dicti?, from contr?d?c? (“speak against”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?nt???d?k??n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k??nt???d?k??n/
• Rhymes: -?k??n

Noun

contradiction (countable and uncountable, plural contradictions)

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of contradicting.

   His contradiction of the proposal was very interesting.

2. (countable) A statement that contradicts itself, i.e., a statement that claims that the same thing is true and that it is false at the same time and in the same senses of the terms.

   There is a contradiction in Clarence Page's statement that a woman should have the right to choose and decide for herself whether to have an abortion and at the same time she should not have that right.

   There is a contradiction in what you say: she can't be both married and single.

3. (countable) A logical inconsistency among two or more elements or propositions.

   Marx believed that the contradictions of capitalism would lead to socialism.

4. (logic, countable) A proposition that is false for all values of its propositional variables or Boolean atoms.

Synonyms

• (statement that contradicts itself): oxymoron
• (proposition that is false for all values of its variables): ?, ??, ?, ?, ?

Antonyms

• (proposition that is false for all values of its variables): tautology

Coordinate terms

• (proposition that is false for all values of its variables): contingency, tautology

Related terms

• contradict
• contradictory
• self-contradiction

Translations

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin contradictio, contradictionem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.t?a.dik.sj??/

Noun

contradiction f (plural contradictions)

1. contradiction (clarification of this definition is needed)

Derived terms

• esprit de contradiction

Related terms

• contradictoire
• contredire

Further reading

• “contradiction” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).