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Word: Antithesis
Speech Type: Noun
late Middle English (originally denoting the substitution of one grammatical case for another): from late Latin, from Greek antitithenai ‘set against’, from anti ‘against’ + tithenai ‘to place’. The earliest current sense, denoting a rhetorical or literary device, dates from the early 16th century
anˈtɪθɪsɪs
a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else
Short Definition:direct opposite
Examples:- love is the antithesis of selfishness
(in Hegelian philosophy) the negation of the thesis as the second stage in the process of dialectical reasoning.
Short Definition:in philosophy
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