Usually means: Dialogue exploring contradictions, seeking resolution.
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We found 38 dictionaries that define the word dialectic:

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  1. dialectic: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. dialectic: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. dialectic: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. dialectic: Collins English Dictionary
  5. dialectic: Vocabulary.com
  6. Dialectic, dialectic: Wordnik
  7. dialectic: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. dialectic: Wiktionary
  9. dialectic: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. dialectic: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. dialectic: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Dialectic, dialectic: Dictionary.com
  13. Dialectic, The Dialectic: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Dialectic: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. dialectic: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. dialectic: Rhymezone
  17. Dialectic: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. dialectic: Free Dictionary
  19. dialectic: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. dialectic: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  21. dialectic: Dictionary/thesaurus
  22. dialectic: Online Etymology Dictionary

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dialectic: Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names
  2. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. dialectic: Legal dictionary
  2. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)

Computing (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dialectic: Cybernetics and Systems
  2. dialectic: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. dialectic: Political
  2. A Brief Critical Dictionary of Education (No longer online)
  3. dialectic: Glosario de términos filosóficos (en inglés)
  4. dialectic: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dialectic: Catholic Encyclopedia
  2. Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. dialectic: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See dialectics as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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noun:  Any formal system of reasoning that arrives at a truth by the exchange of logical arguments.
noun:  A contradiction of ideas that serves as the determining factor in their interaction.
noun:  (Marxism) Progression of conflict, especially class conflict.
adjective:  Dialectical.
adjective:  Dialectal.

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