A disagreement that focuses on individual- or personally-oriented issues.

(computing) An instance of two people trying to edit the same file or document simultaneously.

(law) A situation in which an individual or legal entity in a position of trust (such as an attorney, investment advisor, broker, politician, executive, director, scientist or physician) has competing professional or personal interests.

Dominated or plagued by conflict.

(literary theory) A conflict that is between a character and an external force, such as another character.

(literary theory) A psychological conflict that is internal to a character. / (by extension) Mental struggle arising from competing feelings, desires, impulses, etc.

(sociology) a conflict among the roles corresponding to two or more statuses.

(international law, military) A contested incompatibility that entails the use of armed force between two parties including a territory, the government of a state, or both.

(education, psychology) A Piagetian form of cognitive training in which a person who does not yet understand a concept and others who do understand it are encouraged to discuss it as a group and formulate a consensus.

(psychiatry) Exhibiting one of the four subtypes of avoidant personality disorder as defined by the American psychiatrist Theodore Millon. Includes features of passive-aggressive personality disorder