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Contradictory

adjective

1.

Of words or propositions so related that both cannot be true and both cannot be false.

2.

That confounds or contradicts or confuses. Synonym: confounding.

3.

In disagreement. Synonyms: at odds, conflicting, self-contradictory. "Contradictory attributes of unjust justice and loving vindictiveness"

4.

Unable to be both true at the same time. Synonym: mutually exclusive.

noun

(pl. contradictories)

1.

Two propositions are contradictories if both cannot be true (or both cannot be false) at the same time.

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