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Synonyms for antithesis

Grammar : Noun
Spell : an-tith-uh-sis
Phonetic Transcription : ænˈtɪθ ə sɪs

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Définition of antithesis

Origin :
  • 1520s, from Late Latin antithesis, from Greek antithesis "opposition, resistance," literally "a placing against," also a term in logic and rhetoric, noun of action from antitithenai "to set against, oppose," a term in logic, from anti- "against" (see anti-) + tithenai "to place," from PIE root *dhe- "to put, to do" (see factitious).
  • noun exact opposite
  • noun contrast, opposition
Example sentences :
  • He was only misled by his love of antithesis into a hasty and illogical remark.
  • Extract from : « Wilfrid Cumbermede » by George MacDonald
  • That seems to arise out of the antithesis to the former conception of love.
  • Extract from : « Phaedrus » by Plato
  • But the number of thinkers whom this antithesis does not satisfy grows daily.
  • Extract from : « Evolution in Modern Thought » by Ernst Haeckel
  • There are forms of antithesis in which the contrast is only of a secondary kind.
  • Extract from : « The Verbalist » by Thomas Embly Osmun, (AKA Alfred Ayres)
  • If one part of the antithesis is a negation, what is the Inflection?
  • Extract from : « The Ontario High School Reader » by A.E. Marty
  • With euphuism, antithesis and the use of balanced sentences came to stay.
  • Extract from : « John Lyly » by John Dover Wilson
  • The two parts of an antithesis are generally separated in this way.
  • Extract from : « "Stops" » by Paul Allardyce
  • The twelfth-century romances are in most things the antithesis to Homer, in narrative.
  • Extract from : « Epic and Romance » by W. P. Ker
  • In an American drawing-room the antithesis would have been less violent.
  • Extract from : « The Nabob » by Alphonse Daudet
  • In an American parlor the antithesis would have been less offensive.
  • Extract from : « The Nabob, Volume 1 (of 2) » by Alphonse Daudet

Antonyms for antithesis

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