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English
Etymology
From Middle French.
Morphologically confront + -ation
Pronunciation
Noun
confrontation (countable and uncountable, plural confrontations)
- The act of confronting or challenging another, especially face to face.
- Synonym: confrontal
1999, Nicholas Walker, “The Reorientation of Critical Theory: Habermas”, in Simon Glemdinning, editor, The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy, Routledge, →ISBN, page 489:During the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s, this commitment brought him into frequent critical confrontation with entrenched forms of conservative thinking (in academic areas from history and social science to the more abstract domains of ethical and political philosophy) […]
- A conflict between armed forces.
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the act of confronting or challenging another, especially face-to-face
- Albanian: ballafaqim (sq) m
- Arabic: مُوَاجَهَة f (muwājaha), مُجَابَهَة f (mujābaha)
- Belarusian: канфранта́цыя f (kanfrantácyja), супрацьстая́нне n (supracʹstajánnje)
- Bulgarian: конфронта́ция (bg) f (konfrontácija), противопоста́вяне (bg) n (protivopostávjane)
- Catalan: confrontació (ca) f, confrontament m, enfrontament (ca) m, afrontament m
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 對峙/对峙 (zh) (duìzhì), 對質/对质 (zh) (duìzhì)
- Czech: konfrontace f
- Danish: konfrontation c
- Dutch: confrontatie (nl) f
- Finnish: konfrontaatio (fi)
- French: confrontation (fr) f
- German: Konfrontation (de) f, Gegenüberstellung (de) f
- Hebrew: עִמּוּת \ עימות f ('imut)
- Italian: (please verify) braccio di ferro, confronto (it) m
- Japanese: 対決 (ja) (たいけつ, taiketsu), 対立 (ja) (たいりつ, tairitsu), 直面 (ja) (ちょくめん, chokumen)
- Korean: 대결(對決) (ko) (daegyeol), 대치(對峙) (ko) (daechi), 대립(對立) (ko) (daerip)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: بەرەنگار (berengar)
- Northern Kurdish: rûbirûbûn (ku), tûşîbûn (ku)
- Macedonian: конфронта́ција f (konfrontácija), спротивставу́вање n (sprotivstavúvanje)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: konfrontasjon m
- Nynorsk: konfrontasjon m
- Persian: رویارویی (fa) (ruyâruyi), مواجهه (fa) (movâjahe)
- Polish: konfrontacja (pl) f
- Portuguese: confronto (pt) m, briga (pt) f
- Romanian: confruntare (ro) f
- Russian: конфронта́ция (ru) f (konfrontácija), противостоя́ние (ru) n (protivostojánije), противобо́рство (ru) n (protivobórstvo)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: конфронта́ција f
- Roman: konfrontácija (sh) f
- Slovak: konfrontácia f
- Slovene: soočenje n
- Spanish: confrontación (es) f, enfrentamiento (es) m, careo (es) m ((law))
- Swedish: konfrontation (sv) c
- Ukrainian: конфронта́ція f (konfrontácija), протистоя́ння n (protystojánnja)
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a conflict between armed forces
- Albanian: kundërvënie (sq) f
- Belarusian: канфранта́цыя f (kanfrantácyja), супрацьстая́нне n (supracʹstajánnje), сутыкне́нне n (sutyknjénnje), суты́чка f (sutýčka)
- Bulgarian: конфронта́ция (bg) f (konfrontácija), би́тка (bg) f (bítka), стълкнове́ние (bg) n (stǎlknovénie)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 衝突/冲突 (zh) (chōngtū, chōngtú)
- Dutch: confrontatie (nl) f
- Finnish: yhteenotto (fi)
- French: confrontation (fr) f
- German: Konfrontation (de) f, Auseinandersetzung (de) f
- Italian: scontro (it) m
- Japanese: 衝突 (ja) (しょうとつ, shōtotsu)
- Korean: 충돌(衝突) (ko) (chungdol)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: بەرەنگاربوونەوە (berengarbûnewe)
- Northern Kurdish: şer (ku), pevçûn (ku)
- Macedonian: су́дир m (súdir), спротивставу́вање n (sprotivstavúvanje), пре́сметка f (présmetka)
- Portuguese: confronto (pt) m
- Russian: конфронта́ция (ru) f (konfrontácija), противостоя́ние (ru) n (protivostojánije), столкнове́ние (ru) n (stolknovénije), сты́чка (ru) f (stýčka)
- Ukrainian: конфронта́ція f (konfrontácija), протистоя́ння n (protystojánnja), су́тичка f (sútyčka), зі́ткнення n (zítknennja)
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French
Pronunciation
Noun
confrontation f (plural confrontations)
- confrontation
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