Conflict vs. Competition

Conflictnoun

A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two or more opposing groups or individuals.

Conflictnoun

An incompatibility, as of two things that cannot be simultaneously fulfilled.

Conflictverb

(intransitive) To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible

Conflictverb

(intransitive) To overlap (with), as in a schedule.

Conflictnoun

A striking or dashing together; violent collision; as, a conflict of elements or waves.

Conflictnoun

A strife for the mastery; hostile contest; battle; struggle; fighting.

Conflictverb

To strike or dash together; to meet in violent collision; to collide.

Conflictverb

To maintain a conflict; to contend; to engage in strife or opposition; to struggle.

Conflictverb

To be in opposition; to be contradictory.

Conflictnoun

an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals);

Conflictnoun

opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings;

Conflictnoun

a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war;

Conflictnoun

a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests;

Conflictnoun

an incompatibility of dates or events;

Conflictnoun

opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot);

Conflictnoun

a disagreement or argument about something important;

Conflictverb

be in conflict;

Conflictverb

go against, as of rules and laws;

Conflictnoun

a serious disagreement or argument, typically a protracted one

Conflictnoun

a prolonged armed struggle

Conflictnoun

a state of mind in which a person experiences a clash of opposing feelings or needs

Conflictnoun

a serious incompatibility between two or more opinions, principles, or interests

Conflictverb

be incompatible or at variance; clash

Conflictverb

having or showing confused and mutually inconsistent feelings

Competitionnoun

(uncountable) The action of competing.

Competitionnoun

(countable) A contest for a prize or award.

Competitionnoun

The competitors in such a contest.

Competitionnoun

The act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the same objects; strife for superiority; emulous contest; rivalry, as for approbation, for a prize, or as where two or more persons are engaged in the same business and each seeking patronage; - followed by for before the object sought, and with before the person or thing competed with.

Competitionnoun

a business relation in which two parties compete to gain customers;

Competitionnoun

an occasion on which a winner is selected from among two or more contestants

Competitionnoun

the act of competing as for profit or a prize;

Competitionnoun

the contestant you hope to defeat;

Competition

Competition is a rivalry where two or more parties strive for a common goal which cannot be shared: where one's gain is the other's loss (an example of which is a zero-sum game). Competition can arise between entities such as organisms, individuals, economic and social groups, etc.