Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being opposite or adverse.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The quality or state of being opposite.

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  • noun The state or condition of being opposite.

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  • noun the relation between opposed entities

Etymologies

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opposite +β€Ž -ness

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Examples

  • Sometimes proof of the "oppositeness" even comes from right-wing sources not following the current right-wing playbook.

    Blogging from the Alley 2008

  • "oppositeness" even comes from right-wing sources not following the current right-wing playbook.

    Blogging from the Alley 2008

  • There can be a wonderful excitement and passion in oppositeness β€” admiring things you don't have or aren't.

    Opposites attract, but can it last? 2011

  • "She plays like a foreigner," he answered, pleased with the success and oppositeness of his evasion.

    BY THE TURTLES OF TASMAN 2010

  • Trust and thankfulness are delightful in their oppositeness to the natural bent of people.

    Thankfulness Angcat 2008

  • BTW: A lot of solidly objective people have written about the oppositeness of what has been going on.

    Think Progress » Gore To Bush On Iraq: It’s Not About You 2006

  • And they're so opposite, of course, some of them that as if their oppositeness and the conflict between them makes this cauldron a very turbulent cauldron, makes it bubble and seethe.

    CNN Transcript Oct 5, 2001 2001

  • Where ideas of the opposite have come together, and lost their oppositeness.

    Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

  • It is this curious oppositeness of direction between the order of causation as affirmed by physics, and the order of evidence as revealed by theory of knowledge, that causes the most serious perplexities in regard to the nature of physical reality.

    Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays Bertrand Russell 1921

  • We can think simultaneously of opposites (e.g. existence and nonexistence, round and angular), and these opposites must be simultaneously present in our consciousness, for otherwise we could not compare them, nor perceive and declare their oppositeness.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 10: Mass Music-Newman 1840-1916 1913

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