dialectic
C2CEFR level
75/100Rarity: rare
TechnicalRegister
General noun
Reasoning through the dialogue of opposing ideas.
Their exchange became a genuine dialectic, not a quarrel.
Business noun
A method of examining ideas through the tension and resolution between opposing arguments.
The strategy offsite was structured as a dialectic, pitting the growth camp against the efficiency camp before converging on a plan.
Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.
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