Noun

• S: (n) controversy, contention, contestation, disputation, disceptation, tilt, argument, arguing (a contentious speech act; a dispute where there is strong disagreement) "they were involved in a violent argument"
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• S: (n) argy-bargy, argle-bargle (a verbal dispute; a wrangling argument)
• S: (n) firestorm (an outburst of controversy) "the incident triggered a political firestorm"
• S: (n) sparring (an argument in which the participants are trying to gain some advantage)
• S: (n) polemic (a controversy (especially over a belief or dogma))
• S: (n) fight (an intense verbal dispute) "a violent fight over the bill is expected in the Senate"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) dispute, difference, difference of opinion, conflict (a disagreement or argument about something important) "he had a dispute with his wife"; "there were irreconcilable differences"; "the familiar conflict between Republicans and Democrats"
• S: (n) disagreement (the speech act of disagreeing or arguing or disputing)
• S: (n) speech act (the use of language to perform some act)
• S: (n) act, deed, human action, human activity (something that people do or cause to happen)
• S: (n) event (something that happens at a given place and time)
• S: (n) psychological feature (a feature of the mental life of a living organism)
• S: (n) abstraction, abstract entity (a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples)
• S: (n) entity (that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))
• derivationally related form