antipode

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  1. noun A direct or diametrical opposite: "We just sit and listen to the fullness of the quiet, as an antipode to focused busyness” (Kathryn A. Knox).

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  • This is the antipode of the "magic as chaos" view. —  The Net Wizard's Handbook, Second Edition by Jim Gitzlaff and Staff
  • Most of their food was obtained by foraging among grasses and shrubs, but they were not exclusively vegetarian. —  The Lost Worlds of 2001
  • The Eld's. antipode was the Rim, the land of night and the lower edge of the Werld where spacetime funneled rapidly toward the core of the black hole. —  In Other Worlds
  • Darling was in my thoughts often while I stood below those black, glossy walls, for she was the castle's antipode when I was up there. —  Shadows Linger
  • The antipode of Paris is Christchurch, New Zealand. —  Shampoo Planet
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Back-formation from antipodes.

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  1. Formerly also antipod, rarely antipos; from Latin antipodes, plural: see antipodes.
 

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/ˈæntɪpoʊd/
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