Provocation vs Contradiction - What's the difference?
provocation | contradiction |
The act of provoking, inciting or annoying someone into doing something
Something that provokes; a provocative act
(emergency medicine) The second step in OPQRST regarding the investigation of what makes the symptoms MOI or NOI improve or deteriorate.
(uncountable) The act of contradicting.
(countable) A statement that contradicts itself.
(countable) a logical incompatibility among two or more elements or propositions
(logic, countable) A proposition that is false for all values of its variables.
As nouns the difference between provocation and contradiction
is that provocation is the act of provoking, inciting or annoying someone into doing something while contradiction is (uncountable) the act of contradicting.provocation
English
(wikipedia provocation)Noun
(en noun)- When it's time to check for provocation ask the patient about what makes their chief complaint better or worse.
contradiction
English
(wikipedia contradiction)Noun
- His contradiction of the proposal was very interesting.
- There is a contradiction in what you say - she can't be both married and single.
- Marx believed that the contradictions of capitalism would lead to socialism.