What is another word for rivalry?
Synonyms for rivalry
ˈraɪ vəl riri·val·ry
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
rivalry
Aspiration is the desire for excellence, pure and simple. Ambition, literally a going around to solicit votes, has primary reference to the award or approval of others, and is the eager desire of power, fame, or something deemed great and eminent, and viewed as a worthy prize. The prizes of aspiration are virtue, nobility, skill, or other high qualities. The prizes of ambition are advancement, fame, honor, and the like. There is a noble and wise or an ignoble, selfish, and harmful ambition. Emulation is not so much to win any excellence or success for itself as to equal or surpass other persons. There is such a thing as a noble emulation, when those we would equal or surpass are noble, and the means we would use worthy. But, at the highest, emulation is inferior as a motive to aspiration, which seeks the high quality or character for its own sake, not with reference to another. Competition is the striving for something that is sought by another at the same time. Emulation regards the abstract, competition the concrete; rivalry is the same in essential meaning with competition, but differs in the nature of the objects contested for, which, in the case of rivalry, are usually of the nobler sort and less subject to direct gaging, measurement, and rule. We speak of competition in business, emulation in scholarship, rivalry in love, politics, etc.; emulation of excellence, success, achievement; competition for a prize; rivalry between persons or nations. Competition may be friendly, rivalry is commonly hostile. Opposition is becoming a frequent substitute for competition in business language; it implies that the competitor is an opponent and hinderer.
Synonyms:
ambition, aspiration, competition, emulation, oppositionAntonyms:
carelessness, contentment, humility, indifference, satisfaction
Princeton's WordNet
competition, contention, rivalrynoun
the act of competing as for profit or a prize
"the teams were in fierce contention for first place"
Synonyms:
rival, contestation, competitor, disceptation, competition, disputation, contender, argument, arguing, contention, challenger, contest, tilt, controversy
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Dictionary of English Synonymes
rivalrynoun
Synonyms:
competition, emulation, contention, RIVALSHIP
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
rivalrynoun
Synonyms:
competition, emulation, contention
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List of paraphrases for "rivalry":
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#2077 | argument | |
#2078 | competition | |
#3575 | contest | |
#5349 | opposition | |
#9858 | controversy | |
#10154 | tilt | |
#11080 | rival | |
#12862 | competitor | |
#13623 | arguing | |
#14677 | emulation | |
#15031 | ambition | |
#15577 | challenger | |
#17032 | contention | |
#23458 | rivalry | |
#24319 | aspiration | |
#25149 | contender | |
#74106 | infighting | |
#96087 | disputation | |
#123126 | contestation |
How to use rivalry in a sentence?
We all really enjoy going back to our respective club teams and having that rivalry with the other teams, i've been to two finals and I haven't won one yet so it's kind of on the bucket list.
It’s a special rivalry to the Alabama fans and the players so we wanted to just have fun with it while we can.
Most of the drivers of the tension have been in the country for many decades and generations, and a lot of it is born out of the abject poverty of the country, the limited economic development opportunities and the inter-ethnic and inter-island rivalry between the two most populous islands, so everyone's pointing fingers, but some fingers also need to be pointed at the political leaders of the Solomon Islands.
Were talking that far away unless something changes for both of us, we have been in conversations about looking down the road to add another series of games to keep the rivalry moving forward.
Our party accepts tension and rivalry in the political arena but I want to once more express that we do not accept any form of violence as a means.
Translations for rivalry
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- التنافسArabic
- rivalitatCatalan, Valencian
- rivalita, soupeřeníCzech
- RivalitätGerman
- ανταγωνισμός, συναγωνισμός, άμιλλαGreek
- rivalidadSpanish
- kilpailuFinnish
- rivalitéFrench
- iomaidhIrish
- antagonismo, rivalitàItalian
- 拮抗, 争い, 競争, ライバルJapanese
- tauwhāingatangaMāori
- rivaliteitDutch
- rywalizacjaPolish
- rivalidadePortuguese
- соперничествоRussian
- 對抗Chinese
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