contention
I
(argument) noun
allegation, area of disagreement, argumentation, cause, conflict, contest, controversy, debate, discord, disputatio, disputation, dispute, disputed point, ground, issue, legal dispute, legal issue, plea, point, polemic, proposition, reason, root of dissension
II
(opposition) noun
antagonism, challenge, clashing, combat, competition, competitiveness, conflict, contentiousness, contest, contestation, contrariety, contravention, controversy, counteraction, cross purposes, debate, difference, disaccord, disagreement, discord, disharmony, disputation, dispute, dissension, dissent, dissidence, dissonance, divergence, enmity, faction, factiousness, feud, fight, friction, hostility, inimicality, irreconcilability, protest, protestation, quarrel, quarreling, quarrelsomeness, recrimination, resistance, rivalry, schism, strife, struggle, unappeasability, velitation, wrangling
III
index
avowal, case (lawsuit), collision (dispute), conflict, confrontation (altercation), contest (dispute), contravention, controversy (argument), disaccord, disagreement, discord, dispute, dissension, embroilment, feud, fracas, fray, lawsuit, opposition, resistance, rift (disagreement), strife, struggle, variance (disagreement)
Burton's Legal Thesaurus.
William C. Burton.
2006