conflict
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- noun
- /ˈkɒnflɪkt/
- As an artist, have you ever felt strong conflict between the art and the money?
- internal conflict
- role conflict
- identity conflict
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Watch on YouTubeThis kind of inner conflict and outer conflict are necessary for growth.
- This kind of inner conflict and outer conflict are necessary for growth.
- And so it can really cause a conflict within some women, right?
- It's again, a conflict between self will and surrender.
- Well, I think of magic as creating a conflict in beliefs.
- No, because then you're at conflict with self and that's not healthy.
- This is like a it's a weird, like internal conflict in the Skolnick value set.
- So divided so much, just conflict with ourselves.
- And they've, they feel like they get conflict in, in, in their brain around certain things.
- This internal conflict manifests itself as anger.
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The novel explores the protagonist's internal conflict between her ambitions and her family's expectations.
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And so naturally, you've got this wonderful personal conflict between these two people.
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And so it can really cause a conflict within some women, right?
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There is always a conflict between honor and duty.
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But some conflict is normal in a marriage.
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This kind of inner conflict and outer conflict are necessary for growth.
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It's about when there is conflict before you react, pray about it.
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My moral duty was not in conflict or even in tension with my legal duty.
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So there's some internal conflict going on.
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My therapist says that I avoid conflict even when it doesn't belong to me.
Synonyms
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A fight inside a person's mind about what they feel or believe
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An inner struggle between opposing beliefs or desires
A feeling of strong conflict inside a person about two different loyalties
Antonyms
Compounds
- Formal
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A situation when someone has two interests that could affect their decisions
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A time when two planned events happen at the same time so you cannot attend both
A civil war in southeastern Nigeria from 1967 to 1970 when Biafra tried to break away and become independent
- Literature
An armed conflict in eastern Ukraine since 2014 between Ukrainian forces and fighters backed by Russia
- Literature
A violent fight between armed groups that are not part of the official army
- Specialized
A field of study that looks at why people fight and how to make peace
How Intense
Surface Forms
Morphology
conflict = con + flict
Although historically analyzable as con- + -flict, 'flict' is not a standalone English word, so the internal-psychological meaning is not transparently built from the parts for typical learners.
Etymology
Conflict comes from Latin parts con- 'together' and fligere 'to strike', like two feelings 'striking' one another inside a person. So an internal conflict is when different desires or values clash inside your mind.