antithesis

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Etymology

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Borrowed from Latin antithesis, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀντίθεσις (antíthesis). By surface analysis, anti- +‎ thesis.

Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /æn.ˈtɪ.θə.sɪs/
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Examples (rhetoric)

Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address (1863)
The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

Noun

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antithesis (plural antitheses)

  1. A proposition that is the diametric opposite of some other proposition.
  2. (rhetoric) A device by which two contrasting ideas are juxtaposed in parallel form; a figure of speech arranged in this manner
    • 1835, L[arret] Langley, A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, [], Doncaster: Printed by C. White, Baxter-Gate, →OCLC, page 22:
      Antithesis, opposing things to things,
      Oft from the contrast strength and beauty brings.
  3. (philosophy) The second stage of a dialectical process in which the thesis is negated.

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