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Another word for contentiousness

noun

The quality or state of being argumentative:
argumentativeness, combativeness, disputatiousness, litigiousness, scrappiness. See conflict
Warlike or hostile attitude or nature:
bellicoseness, bellicosity, belligerence, belligerency, combativeness, hostility, militance, militancy, pugnaciousness, pugnacity, truculence, truculency. See attack
The power or will to fight:
bellicoseness, bellicosity, belligerence, belligerency, combativeness, fight, pugnaciousness, pugnacity, truculence, truculency. See conflict
Hostile behavior:
aggression, aggressiveness, belligerence, belligerency, combativeness, hostility, militance, militancy. See attack

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The growing contentiousness of their relationship which split the cast into "cliques" was one of the season's biggest story lines.
His vanity, his pride of opinion and his inborn contentiousness were serious handicaps to him in his political career.
8), exclaiming in his dialogues, according to Proclus, that he could not sympathize with the dogma even if it should be thought that he was opposing, it out of contentiousness; while Plutarch says that his attacks on the forms by means of his exoteric dialogues were thought by some.

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