Synonyms for rivalry
ˈraɪ vəl riri·val·ry

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1. rivalry

   Aspiration is the desire for excellence, pure and simple. Ambition, literally a going around to solicit votes, has primary reference to the award or approval of others, and is the eager desire of power, fame, or something deemed great and eminent, and viewed as a worthy prize. The prizes of aspiration are virtue, nobility, skill, or other high qualities. The prizes of ambition are advancement, fame, honor, and the like. There is a noble and wise or an ignoble, selfish, and harmful ambition. Emulation is not so much to win any excellence or success for itself as to equal or surpass other persons. There is such a thing as a noble emulation, when those we would equal or surpass are noble, and the means we would use worthy. But, at the highest, emulation is inferior as a motive to aspiration, which seeks the high quality or character for its own sake, not with reference to another. Competition is the striving for something that is sought by another at the same time. Emulation regards the abstract, competition the concrete; rivalry is the same in essential meaning with competition, but differs in the nature of the objects contested for, which, in the case of rivalry, are usually of the nobler sort and less subject to direct gaging, measurement, and rule. We speak of competition in business, emulation in scholarship, rivalry in love, politics, etc.; emulation of excellence, success, achievement; competition for a prize; rivalry between persons or nations. Competition may be friendly, rivalry is commonly hostile. Opposition is becoming a frequent substitute for competition in business language; it implies that the competitor is an opponent and hinderer.

   Synonyms:
   ambition, aspiration, competition, emulation, opposition

   Antonyms:
   carelessness, contentment, humility, indifference, satisfaction

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1. competition, contention, rivalrynoun

   the act of competing as for profit or a prize

   "the teams were in fierce contention for first place"

   Synonyms:
   rival, contestation, competitor, disceptation, competition, disputation, contender, argument, arguing, contention, challenger, contest, tilt, controversy

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1. • Group Action

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1. rivalrynoun

   Synonyms:
   competition, emulation, contention, RIVALSHIP

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1. rivalrynoun

   Synonyms:
   competition, emulation, contention

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1. List of paraphrases for "rivalry":

   competition, infighting

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1. Jack Grealish:

   I was walking into position and then just felt a whack around the side of the face, obviously theres rivalry and stuff in football but I dont think theres any place for that.

2. Brian Robinson:

   It’s a special rivalry to the Alabama fans and the players so we wanted to just have fun with it while we can.

3. Yang Jiechi:

   We in China hope that the United States will rise above the outdated mentality of zero-sum, major-power rivalry and work with China to keep the relationship on the right track.

4. Tyler Pastornicky:

   It's a rivalry. You hear about it. You come over here to Team USA and that's what they tell us. They got a lot of good players down there and it's kind of what it is, but we got good players they got good players and it's always heated games. We always play hard.

5. That Lai:

   The( new) Cold War is actually a rivalry of competing values, we in Hong Kong are fighting for the shared values of the US against China. We are fighting their war in the enemy camp.