Associations to the word «Dilemma»
Noun
- Ultimatum
- Autonomy
- Cumberland
- Intellectual
- Prob
- Resolution
- Answer
- Economic
- Interpreting
- Fergus
- Judaism
- Holocaust
- Scenario
- Coping
- Discussion
- Inference
- Junk
- Desperation
- Therapist
- Logic
- Issue
- Experimentation
- Cantor
- Gone
- Auschwitz
- Goldman
- Clinician
- Relevance
- Capitalism
- Aldo
- Variance
- Context
- Cornwallis
- Accountability
- Clayton
- Parable
- Validity
- Humankind
- Nance
- Locke
- Narrative
- Norm
- Sustaining
- Dictatorship
- Redistribution
- Assumption
- Doctor
- Behavior
- Hardin
- Pm
- Prejudice
- Consent
- Rea
- Discretion
- Implication
- Reasoning
- Struggle
- Challenge
- Merrill
- Spiral
- Marxism
- Looming
- Stole
- Theo
- Common
- Fairy
Adjective
Wiktionary
DILEMMA, noun. A circumstance in which a choice must be made between two or more alternatives that seem equally undesirable.
DILEMMA, noun. A difficult circumstance or problem.
DILEMMA, noun. (logic) A type of syllogism of the form "if A is true then B is true; if C is true then D is true; either A or C is true; therefore either B or D is true".
DILEMMA, noun. (rhetoric) Offering to an opponent a choice between two (equally unfavorable) alternatives.
Dictionary definition
DILEMMA, noun. State of uncertainty or perplexity especially as requiring a choice between equally unfavorable options.
Wise words
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