confrontation
English
Etymology
From Middle French.Morphologically confront + -ation
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˌkɒnfɹənˈteɪʃən/
Audio (UK) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪʃən
Noun
confrontation (countable and uncountable, plural confrontations)
- The act of confronting or challenging another, especially face to face.
- 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) […]
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- A conflict between armed forces.
Derived terms
- confrontational
Related terms
- confront
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 at OneLook Dictionary Search
French
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/
Audio (file)
Noun
confrontation f (plural confrontations)
- confrontation
Related terms
- confronter
Further reading
- “confrontation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.