conflict: meaning and definitions

A state of open, often prolonged fighting; a battle or war.

A state of disharmony between incompatible or antithetical persons, ideas, or interests; a clash.

Psychology A psychic struggle, often unconscious, resulting from the opposition or simultaneous functioning of mutually exclusive impulses, desires, or tendencies.

Opposition between characters or forces in a work of drama or fiction, especially opposition that motivates or shapes the action of the plot.

To be in or come into opposition; differ.

Archaic To engage in warfare.