antithesis

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  1. noun Direct contrast; opposition.
  2. noun The direct or exact opposite: Hope is the antithesis of despair.
  3. noun A figure of speech in which sharply contrasting ideas are juxtaposed in a balanced or parallel phrase or grammatical structure, as in "Hee for God only, shee for God in him” (John Milton).

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  1. Late Latin, from Greek, from antitithenai, antithe-, to oppose : anti-, anti- + tithenai, to set; see dhē- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Latin, from Greek ἀντίθεσις, opposition (cf. ἀντίθετος, opposed, antithetic), from ἀντιτιθέναι, oppose, set against, from ἁντί, against, + τιθέναι, place, set, later θέσις: see anti- and thesis.
 

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/ænˈtɪθɛsɪs/
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