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dialectic has 1 distinct synonym spread across 1 of its 3 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
any formal system of reasoning that arrives at the truth by the exchange of logical arguments
a contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction
“this situation created the inner dialectic of American history”
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for dialectic come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.