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frustration collapse: an act of hindering someone's plans or efforts; a feeling of annoyance at being hindered or criticized; "her constant complaints were the main source of his frustration"; the feeling that accompanies an experience of being thwarted in attaining your goals

trauma collapse: an emotional wound or shock often having long-lasting effects

Janus collapse: (Roman mythology) the Roman god of doorways and passages; is depicted with two faces on opposite sides of his head

antinomy collapse: a contradiction between two statements that seem equally reasonable

dualism collapse: the doctrine that reality consists of two basic opposing elements, often taken to be mind and matter (or mind and body), or good and evil

dichotomy collapse: being twofold; a classification into two opposed parts or subclasses; "the dichotomy between eastern and western culture"

oxymoron collapse: conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence')

paradox collapse: (logic) a statement that contradicts itself; "`I always lie' is a paradox because if it is true it must be false"

indecision collapse: doubt concerning two or more possible alternatives or courses of action; "his indecision was only momentary but the opportunity was lost"

bifurcation collapse: the act of splitting into two branches; the place where something divides into two branches; a bifurcating branch (one or both of them)

duplicity collapse: acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another

doubling collapse: raising the stakes in a card game by a factor of 2; "I decided his double was a bluff"; increase by a factor of two; "doubling with a computer took no time at all"

irony collapse: incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs; "the irony of Ireland's copying the nation she most hated"; a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs

disproportion collapse: lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something

ambiguity collapse: unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning; an expression whose meaning cannot be determined from its context

polarity collapse: having an indicated pole (as the distinction between positive and negative electric charges); "he got the polarity of the battery reversed"; "charges of opposite sign"

incompatibility collapse: the quality of being unable to exist or work in congenial combination; the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time; (immunology) the degree to which the body's immune system will try to reject foreign material (as transfused blood or transplanted tissue)

duplication collapse: the act of copying or making a duplicate (or duplicates) of something; "this kind of duplication is wasteful"

indecisiveness collapse: the trait of irresolution; a lack of firmness of character or purpose; "the king's incurable indecisiveness caused turmoil in his court"

unorthodoxy collapse: the quality of being unorthodox; any opinions or doctrines at variance with the official or orthodox position

incongruity collapse: the quality of disagreeing; being unsuitable and inappropriate

conflict collapse: an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals); "the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph"--Thomas Paine; "police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs"; an incompatibility of dates or events; "he noticed a conflict in the dates of the two meetings"; opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings; "he was immobilized by conflict and indecision"; opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot); "this form of conflict is essential to Mann's writing"; a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests; "his conflict of interest made him ineligible for the post"; "a conflict of loyalties"; go against, as of rules and laws; "He ran afoul of the law"; "This behavior conflicts with our rules"; be in conflict; "The two proposals conflict!"

equivocation collapse: falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language; intentionally vague or ambiguous

instability collapse: the quality or attribute of being unstable and irresolute; unreliability attributable to being unstable; an unstable order

stress collapse: the relative prominence of a syllable or musical note (especially with regard to stress or pitch); "he put the stress on the wrong syllable"; (physics) force that produces strain on a physical body; "the intensity of stress is expressed in units of force divided by units of area"; difficulty that causes worry or emotional tension; "she endured the stresses and strains of life"; "he presided over the economy during the period of the greatest stress and danger"- R.J.Samuelson; special emphasis attached to something; "the stress was more on accuracy than on speed"; put stress on; utter with an accent; "In Farsi, you accent the last syllable of each word"; to stress, single out as important; "Dr. Jones emphasizes exercise in addition to a change in diet"

inconsistency collapse: the quality of being inconsistent and lacking a harmonious uniformity among things or parts

conjugation collapse: a class of verbs having the same inflectional forms; the complete set of inflected forms of a verb; the inflection of verbs

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