confrontation (n.)

• allegory
• analogy
• antagonism
• antipathy
• antithesis
• audience
• balancing
• bargaining
• collision
• compare
• comparing
• comparison
• conclave
• confab
• confabulation
• conference
• conflict
• congress
• consultation
• contention
• contradiction
• contradistinction
• contraindication
• contrariety
• contrast
• convention
• correlation
• council
• disagreement
• discrepancy
• discussion
• distinction
• distinctiveness
• encounter
• hostility
• huddle
• inconsistency
• interview
• joining
• likening
• matching
• meeting
• metaphor
• negotiations
• oppositeness
• opposition
• palaver
• parallelism
• parley
• perversity
• polarity
• polarization
• powwow
• proportion
• relation
• repugnance
• seance
• session
• showdown
• simile
• similitude
• sitting
• summit
• weighing