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   antithesis

   /anˈtɪθɪsɪs/

   noun

   • 1. a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else: "love is the antithesis of selfishness" Similar (direct) oppositeconversereversereversalinverseobversethe other extremethe other side of the coininformal:the flip side
   • ▪ a contrast or opposition between two things: "the antithesis between occult and rational mentalities" Similar contrastopposition
   • ▪ a rhetorical or literary device in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed: "figures of speech such as antithesis"
   • 2. (in Hegelian philosophy) the negation of the thesis as the second stage in the process of dialectical reasoning.

   Word Origin 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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