antithesis

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 1.3.1 Related terms 1.3.2 Translations

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[edit] Etymology

From Greek anti (“‘against’”) + thesis (“‘position’”).

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antithesis (plural antitheses)

1. A proposition that is the diametric opposite of some other proposition.
2. A rhetorical device by which two contrasting ideas are juxtaposed in parallel form.
   • 1863, Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address,

     The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

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• antithetical

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