ANTITHESIS


Meaning of ANTITHESIS in English

noun (plural antitheses) see: do Date: 1529 1. a. the rhetorical contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangements of words, clauses, or sentences (as in “action, not words” or “they promised freedom and provided slavery”), opposition , contrast , b. the second of two opposing constituents of an ~, the direct opposite , the second stage of a dialectic process

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