Disputation

[dɪspjuː'teɪʃ(ə)n;-pjʊ't-] or ['dɪspjʊ'teʃən]

Definition

(v. i.) The act of disputing; a reasoning or argumentation in opposition to something, or on opposite sides; controversy in words; verbal contest respecting the truth of some fact, opinion, proposition, or argument.

(v. i.) A rhetorical exercise in which parties reason in opposition to each other on some question proposed.

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Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Debate, dispute, controversy, argumentation, verbal contest.

Edited by Charlene