diametrical

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The difference between these two is total, diametrical, complete; there is really nothing common to the experience of pleasure and the experience of a tree; difference has here reached its acme_; agreement is eliminated; there is no higher genus to include these two in one; as the ultimate, the highest elements of knowledge, they admit of 110 fusion, no resolution, no unity.

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  1. adjective Of, relating to, or along a diameter.
  2. adjective Exactly opposite; contrary.

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  1. from Greek διαμετρικός, from διάμετρος, diameter: see diameter.
 

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/daɪəˈmɛtrɪkəl/
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