Conflict vs. Denouement — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Conflict and Denouement
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Definitions
Conflict
A serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one
The eternal conflict between the sexes
Doctors often come into conflict with politicians
Denouement
The final resolution or clarification of a dramatic or narrative plot.
Conflict
Be incompatible or at variance; clash
The date for the match conflicted with a religious festival
Parents' and children's interests sometimes conflict
Denouement
The events following the climax of a drama or novel in which such a resolution or clarification takes place.
Conflict
A state of open, often prolonged fighting; a battle or war.
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Denouement
The outcome of a sequence of events; the end result.
Conflict
A state of disagreement or disharmony between persons or ideas; a clash
A conflict over water rights.
Denouement
Alternative spelling of dénouement
Conflict
(Psychology) An emotional or mental disturbance resulting from the opposition or simultaneous functioning of mutually exclusive impulses, desires, or tendencies.
Denouement
The unraveling or discovery of a plot; the catastrophe, especially of a drama or a romance.
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Conflict
Opposition between characters or forces in a work of drama or fiction, especially when motivating or shaping the action of the plot.
Denouement
The solution of a mystery; issue; outcome.
Conflict
To be in or come into opposition; differ.
Denouement
The outcome of a complex sequence of events
Conflict
(Archaic) To engage in warfare.
Denouement
The final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work
Conflict
A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two or more opposing groups or individuals.
The conflict between the government and the rebels began three years ago.
Conflict
An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.
I wanted to attend the meeting but there's a conflict in my schedule that day.
Conflict
(intransitive) To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible
Conflict
(intransitive) To overlap (with), as in a schedule.
Your conference call conflicts with my older one: please reschedule.
It appears that our schedules conflict.
Conflict
A striking or dashing together; violent collision; as, a conflict of elements or waves.
Conflict
A strife for the mastery; hostile contest; battle; struggle; fighting.
As soon as he [Atterbury] was himself again, he became eager for action and conflict.
An irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.
Conflict
To strike or dash together; to meet in violent collision; to collide.
Fire and water conflicting together.
Conflict
To maintain a conflict; to contend; to engage in strife or opposition; to struggle.
A man would be content to . . . conflict with great difficulties, in hopes of a mighty reward.
Conflict
To be in opposition; to be contradictory.
The laws of the United States and of the individual States may, in some cases, conflict with each other.
Conflict
An open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals);
The harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph
Police tried to control the battle between the pro- and anti-abortion mobs
Conflict
Opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings;
He was immobilized by conflict and indecision
Conflict
A hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war;
Grant won a decisive victory in the battle of Chickamauga
He lost his romantic ideas about war when he got into a real engagement
Conflict
A state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests;
His conflict of interest made him ineligible for the post
A conflict of loyalties
Conflict
An incompatibility of dates or events;
He noticed a conflict in the dates of the two meetings
Conflict
Opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot);
This form of conflict is essential to Mann's writing
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
Conflict
Be in conflict;
The two proposals conflict!
Conflict
Go against, as of rules and laws;
He ran afould of the law
This behavior conflicts with our rules
