antithesis
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Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin antithesis, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀντίθεσις (antíthesis). By surface analysis, anti- + thesis.
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Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address (1863) |
Noun edit
antithesis (plural antitheses)
- A proposition that is the diametric opposite of some other proposition.
- (rhetoric) A device by which two contrasting ideas are juxtaposed in parallel form; a figure of speech arranged in this manner
- (philosophy) The second stage of a dialectical process in which the thesis is negated.
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proposition that is opposite to other proposition
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figure of speech
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