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Antithet

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antithesisnounA proposition that is the diametric opposite of some other proposition.
contrastnoun(countable) A difference between two objects, people or concepts.
countertermnoun(mathematics) A term added to an equation or formula that exactly cancels the contribution of another term which diverges.
oppositenounA person or thing that is entirely different from or the reverse of someone or something else; used to show contrast between two people or two things.
antonymnoun(semantics) A word which has the opposite meaning of another word.
antinomynoun(by extension) Any contradiction or paradox.
autoantonymnoun(rare) A word that has two opposing meanings.
antistasisnoun(rhetoric) The repetition of a word in an opposing sense.
antagonymnounA contronym.
antipodenounSomething directly opposite or diametrically opposed.
antonymynoun(semantics) The semantic relation between antonyms; the quality of being antonymous.
complementary antonymnoun(linguistics, philosophy, semantics) One of a pair of words wherein affirmative use of one entails the negative of the other with no gradability.
binary antonymnoun(semantics) complementary antonym
antilogynoun(rhetoric) A contradiction in related terms or ideas. Usually an inconsistency in syllogisms, of a person or group supposedly of one set of ideals.
contrapositionnoun(countable, logic) The statement of the form "if not Q then not P", given the statement "if P then Q".
counterthesisnounA thesis that rebuts another.
antipolenoun(geography) The opposite pole.
counternounOne who counts.
contradictory antonymnoun(linguistics, philosophy, semantics) complementary antonym
antimetathesisnounThe inversion of the parts of an antithesis, as in "A poem is a speaking picture; a picture, a mute poem" (Crabbe).

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