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Definition of Polar opposition
1. Noun. An opposition that can be graded between two extremes or poles.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Polar Opposition
Literary usage of Polar opposition
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The American Journal of Psychology by Granville Stanley Hall, Edward Bradford Titchener (1893)
"And this " polar opposition " they made the basis of all their chemical doctrines.
In the enthusiastic apprehension of this polar relation of the chemical ..."
2. A Treatise on the Principle of Sufficient Reason: A Psychological Theory of by Penelope Frederica Fitzgerald (1887)
"Idem, This ground being " the encounter of qualities in polar opposition, the
defects of the one neutralizing the defects of the other. ..."
3. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1893)
"... positive and negative electricity, organic and inorganic nature, nature and
spirit, colors as regarded in polar opposition to one another, acid and base ..."
4. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"... leads to the all-important conception of the duality, the polar opposition
through which nature expresses itself in its varied products. ..."
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