antithesis
noun/ænˈtɪθ.ɪ.sɪs/
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin antithesis, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀντίθεσις (antíthesis). By surface analysis, anti- + thesis.
- derived from ἀντίθεσις
- borrowed from antithesis
Definitions
A proposition that is the diametric opposite of some other proposition.
- For if every condition of everything conditioned (according to its existence) is sensuous, and therefore belongs to the series, that series is again conditioned (as shown in the antithesis of the fourth antinomy).
- On the night of the 2nd of March 2025, your actions were the antithesis of everything Paddington stands for.
A device by which two contrasting ideas are juxtaposed in parallel form
A device by which two contrasting ideas are juxtaposed in parallel form; a figure of speech arranged in this manner
- Antithesis, opposing things to things, Oft from the contrast strength and beauty brings.
The second stage of a dialectical process in which the thesis is negated.
The neighborhood
- synonymantithesis
- synonymcontrary
- synonymconverse
- synonyminverse
- synonymobverse
- synonymopposite
- synonympolar opposite
- synonymreverse
- synonymwitherward
- antonymepitome
- neighbordifference
- neighborantipodes
- neighborfoil
- neighbornemesis
- neighboropponent
Vish — recursive loop
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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA