agreement vs contention

agreement

noun
  • Rules that exist in many languages that force some parts of a sentence to be used or inflected differently depending on certain attributes of other parts. 

  • A legally binding contract enforceable in a court of law. 

  • An understanding between entities to follow a specific course of conduct. 

  • A state whereby several parties share a view or opinion; the state of not contradicting one another. 

contention

noun
  • Competition by parts of a system or its users for a limited resource. 

  • Argument, contest, debate, strife, struggle. 

  • A point maintained in an argument, or a line of argument taken in its support; the subject matter of discussion of strife; a position taken or contended for. 

How often have the words agreement and contention occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )