"A polemic /p\u0259\u02C8l\u025Bm\u026Ak/ is a contentious argument that is intended to affirm a specific understanding via attacks on a contrary position. Polemics are mostly seen in arguments about very controversial topics. The art or practice of such argumentation is called polemics. A person who often writes polemics, or who speaks polemically, is a polemicist or a polemic. The word is derived from Greek \u03C0\u03BF\u03BB\u03B5\u03BC\u03B9\u03BA\u03CC\u03C2 (polemikos), meaning \"warlike, hostile\", from \u03C0\u03CC\u03BB\u03B5\u03BC\u03BF\u03C2 (polemos), meaning \"war\"."@en .