confrontation

English

Etymology

From Middle French. Morphologically confront +‎ -ation.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˌkɒn.fɹənˈteɪ.ʃən/

• Audio (UK):

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌkɑn.fɹənˈteɪ.ʃən/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˌkɔn.fɹənˈtæɪ.ʃən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

confrontation (countable and uncountable, plural confrontations)

1. The act of confronting or challenging another, especially face to face.

   Synonyms: confrontal, showdown

   • 1999, Nicholas Walker, “The Reorientation of Critical Theory: Habermas”, in Simon Glemdinning, editor, The Edinburgh Encyclopedia of Continental Philosophy‎^[1], 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) […]

2. A conflict between armed forces.

Derived terms

• autoconfrontation
• carefrontation
• confrontational
• confrontationism
• confrontationist
• nonconfrontation
• reconfrontation
• self-confrontation

Related terms

• confront

Translations

the act of confronting or challenging another, especially face-to-face — see also confrontment,‎ face-off

• Albanian: ballafaqim (sq) m
• Arabic: مُوَاجَهَة f (muwājaha), مُجَابَهَة f (mujābaha)
• Azerbaijani: qarşıdurma
• 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
• Estonian: konfrontatsioon, vastasseis
• Finnish: yhteenotto (fi), vaatiminen (fi), konfrontaatio (fi)
• French: confrontation (fr) f
• German: Konfrontation (de) f, Gegenüberstellung (de) f
• Hebrew: עִמּוּת \ עימות f ('imut)
• Hindi: मुक़ाबला m (muqāblā), आमना-सामना m (āmnā-sāmnā)
• Hungarian: szembesítés (hu), konfrontáció (hu)
• 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)

• Latvian: konfrontācija f
• Lithuanian: konfrontacija f
• Macedonian: конфронта́ција f (konfrontácija), спротивставу́вање n (sprotivstavúvanje)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: konfrontasjon m

  Nynorsk: konfrontasjon m

• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: رویارویی (fa) (ruyâruyi), مُواجَهِه (movâjahe), مُقابِلِه (moġâbele), تَقابُل (taġâbol)

• 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

  Latin: konfrontácija (sh) f

• Slovak: konfrontácia f
• Slovene: soočenje n
• Spanish: confrontación (es) f
• Swedish: konfrontation (sv) c
• Tajik: тақобул (taqobul), конфронтатсия (konfrontatsiya)
• Ukrainian: конфронта́ція f (konfrontácija), протистоя́ння n (protystojánnja)
• Urdu: مُقابْلَہ m (muqābla), آمْنا سامْنا (ur) m (āmnā sāmnā)

a conflict between armed forces

• Albanian: kundërvënie (sq) f
• Azerbaijani: qarşıdurma
• 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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Translations to be checked

• Italian: ^{(please verify)} confrontazione, ^{(please verify)} oppozitione

Further reading

• “confrontation”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Medieval Latin confrontātiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.fʁɔ̃.ta.sjɔ̃/

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

Noun

confrontation f (plural confrontations)

1. confrontation

Related terms

• confronter