ANTITHESIS


Meaning of ANTITHESIS in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ an-ˈti-thə-səs ]

noun

( plural an·tith·e·ses -ˌsēz)

Etymology: Late Latin, from Greek, literally, opposition, from antitithenai to oppose, from anti- + tithenai to set — more at do

Date: 1529

1.

a.

(1) : 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”)

(2) : opposition , contrast

the antithesis of prose and verse

b.

(1) : the second of two opposing constituents of an antithesis

(2) : the direct opposite

her temperament is the very antithesis of mine

2. : the second stage of a dialectic process

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