💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Antithet"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| antithesisnoun | A 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. |
| oppositenoun | A 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. |
| antagonymnoun | A contronym. |
| antipodenoun | Something 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". |
| counterthesisnoun | A thesis that rebuts another. |
| antipolenoun | (geography) The opposite pole. |
| counternoun | One who counts. |
| contradictory antonymnoun | (linguistics, philosophy, semantics) complementary antonym |
| antimetathesisnoun | The 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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