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self-conflict


verb (used without object)

  1. to come into collision or disagreement; be contradictory, at variance, or in opposition; clash: The account of one eyewitness conflicted with that of the other. My class conflicts with my going to the concert.
  2. to fight or contend; do battle.

noun

  1. a fight, battle, or struggle, especially a prolonged struggle; strife.
  2. controversy; quarrel: conflicts between parties.
  3. discord of action, feeling, or effect; antagonism or opposition, as of interests or principles: a conflict of ideas.
  4. a striking together; collision.
  5. incompatibility or interference, as of one idea, desire, event, or activity with another: a conflict in the schedule.
  6. Psychiatry. a mental struggle arising from opposing demands or impulses.

noun (ˈkɒnflɪkt)

  1. a struggle or clash between opposing forces; battle
  2. a state of opposition between ideas, interests, etc; disagreement or controversy
  3. a clash, as between two appointments made for the same time
  4. psychol opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible wishes or drives, sometimes leading to a state of emotional tension and thought to be responsible for neuroses

verb (kənˈflɪkt) (intr)

  1. to come into opposition; clash
  2. to fight

v.early 15c., from Latin conflictus, past participle of confligere “to strike together, be in conflict,” from com- “together” (see com-) + fligere “to strike” (see afflict). Related: Conflicted; conflicting. n.early 15c., “armed encounter, battle,” from Old French conflit and directly from Latin conflictus (see conflict (v.)). Meaning “struggle, quarrel” is from mid-15c. Psychological sense of “incompatible urges in one person” is from 1859 (hence conflicted, past participle adjective). Phrase conflict of interest was in use by 1743. n.

  1. A psychic struggle between opposing or incompatible impulses, desires, or tendencies.
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