contrariedad

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin contrārietātem.

Noun

contrariedad f (plural contrariedades)

1. opposition, pushback, resistance
   • 2015 September 22, ““Un premio significa que te toman en serio””, in El País‎^[1]:

     "Es verdad que las identidades son peligrosas porque exacerban un discurso que tiende a elegir a unos y expulsar a otros, dejarlos fuera y me parece que ese es un peligro que se está corriendo ahora", afirmaba sin ocultar su contrariedad al proceso soberanista que vive Cataluña.

     "It's true that identities are dangerous because they exacerbate a discourse that tends to select some and expel others, to leave them out, and it seems me that that is the risk we are running right now", he said without hiding his opposition to the sovereignty process underway in Catalonia

Related terms

• contrario

 

Further reading

• “contrariedad”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28