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antithesis

an·tith·e·sis

/anˈtiTHəsəs/

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noun: antithesis; plural noun: antitheses

1. a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else.

   "love is the antithesis of selfishness"

   Similar:

   (direct) opposite

   converse
   

   reverse
   

   reversal
   

   inverse
   

   obverse
   

   the other extreme

   the other side of the coin
   

   the flip side

   • a contrast or opposition between two things.

     "the antithesis between occult and rational mentalities"

     Similar:

     contrast
     

     opposition
     
   • a figure of speech in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words that are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with, each other, such as “hatred stirs up strife, but love covers all sins”.

     "his sermons were full of startling antitheses"
   • (in Hegelian philosophy) the negation of the thesis as the second stage in the process of dialectical reasoning.

Origin GREEK late Middle English (originally denoting the substitution of one grammatical case for another): from late Latin, from Greek antitithenai ‘set against’, from anti ‘against’ + tithenai ‘to place’. The earliest current sense, denoting a rhetorical or literary device, dates from the early 16th century.
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