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    [Noun]  | "an*tith*e*sis" | \ an-ˈti-thə-səs \


    1: the direct opposite

    2: the rhetorical contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangements of words, clauses, or sentences (as in "action, not words" or "they promised freedom and provided slavery")

    3: opposition, contrast


    Origin: 1529 ;

     Late Latin, from Greek, literally, opposition, from antitithenai to oppose, from anti- + tithenai to set ;

    [Noun]  | "antithesis" 


    1: something that is as different as possible from something else;


      * e.g., " ... true love for another is the antithesis of the desire to control that person's life "



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     [ "antithesis" ]

    1: The absolute opposite of whatever you're talking about. Pronounced ant ith ess issss, not anti thesis.

      * e.g.,  ... Shakespeare is the antithesis of Walt Disney. 

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