The quality or state of being contradictive; the character of contradicting or opposing something.
From 'contradictive' (adjective) plus '-ness' (abstract noun suffix creating quality), built on Latin 'contradicere'.
The 'contradictiveness' of quantum mechanics—where particles seem to behave as both waves and particles—troubled physicists for decades until they realized the contradiction was actually pointing to deeper truths about reality.
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