contestation
nounUK /ˌkɒn.tɛsˈteɪ.ʃən/ · CA, US /ˌkɑn.tɛsˈteɪ.ʃən/
Etymology From contest + -ation.
1
The act of contesting; emulation
2
The act of challenging or disputing a claim or idea.
- Contempt and loathing for body and nature are central to the operations of white male grievance, and any contestation of these politics will require us to challenge the somatophobia and ecophobia with which they are bound up.2022, Marisol Cortez, “Ambivalent Anality: Revisiting the Queer Ecology of "the Jackass Moment"”, in Media+Environment:
3
Proof by witness; attestation; testimony.