antipode

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Would not this science be the antipode (some would say antidote_) of the mystic dreams of Plato and of Delsarte himself Reply is easy.

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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 will surely weigh on disposable incomes and prompt precautionary saving in the months ahead, threatening the larger antipode with the possibility of recession. —  Currency Trading News by DailyFX
  • It was created as an antipode of classical opera theater and used unusual - for traditional opera - music, such as rock, swing and rap. —  News on www.kyivpost.com
  • Barack Obama is not the Beast, but rather he is the other Beast from Revelation 13: The false prophet, the antipode to John the Baptist who will prophecy the coming of the Anti-Christ. —  Grammar.police
  • Cormac McCarthy's novel was my last-minute companion two Christmases ago, a perfect antipode to holiday cheer and one of the few reads in recent memory that I had difficulty putting down. —  bagatellen
  • Palin represents and America that is "wild, fundamentalist and a practitioner of lynching" while Obama represents an America that is "archangelic and cosmopolitan" because, for millions of Europeans, Obama "represents the antipode of the death penalty and the free access to guns." —  Latest Articles
 

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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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