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contention (Argument), noun allegation, area of disagreement, argumentation, cause, conflict, contest, debate, discord, disputatio, disputation, dispute, disputed point, ground, issue, legal dispute, legal issue, plea, point, polemic, proposition, reason, root of dissension

contention (Opposition), noun antagonism, challenge, clashing, combat, competition, competitiveness, conflict, contest, contestation, contrariety, contravention, controversy, counteraction, cross purposes, debate, disaccord, disagreement, discord, disharmony, dispute, dissension, dissent, dissidence, dissonance, enmity, faction, factiousness, feud, fight, friction, hostility, inimicality, irreconcilability, protest, protestation, quarrel, quarreling, quarrelsomeness, recrimination, rivalry, schism, strife, struggle, unappeasability, wrangling

See also: altercation, argument, avowal, case, collision, conflict, confrontation, contest, contravention, controversy, disaccord, disagreement, discord, dispute, dissension, embroilment, feud, fracas, fray, lawsuit, opposition, resistance, rift, strife, struggle, variance

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