disputation
nounUK /dɪsˌpjuːˈteɪʃən/
Etymology English dispute + -ation, from Old French disputation, from Latin disputatio.
1
The act of disputing; a dispute or argument.
- And like the battles fought over baptism by sprinkling as opposed to total immersion, these modern-day disputations can be tedious.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, page 13:
2
A rhetorical exercise in which parties reason in opposition to each other over a belief or proposition.
- Derived terms
- disputationism
- Related terms
- disputable, disputant, disputatious, dispute