antithesis

Mane (Îngilîzî)

  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
  3. The second stage of a dialectical process in which the thesis is negated.

Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin
/æn.ˈtɪ.θə.sɪs/
Etîmolojî (Îngilîzî)

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

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