antithesis

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[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

From Ancient Greek  (anti, “against”) +  (thesis, “position”).

[edit] Pronunciation

  • (US) IPA: /ænˈtɪ.θə.sɪs/
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Examples (rhetoric)

Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address (1863)
The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

[edit] Noun

antithesis (plural antitheses)

  1. A proposition that is the diametric opposite of some other proposition.
  2. (rhetoric) A device by which two contrasting ideas are juxtaposed in parallel form.

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[edit] Translations

proposition that is opposite to other proposition
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