The quality or state of being opposite, contradictory, or incompatible; direct opposition.
From Old French 'contrariete' from Latin 'contrarietas,' meaning opposition or contradiction. The word emphasizes the inherent quality of being mutually opposed.
The philosopher Heraclitus taught that 'contrariety' is essential to existence—that tension between opposites like light and dark creates all motion and change in the universe.
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