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Definition of Antithesis
1. Noun. Exact opposite. "His theory is the antithesis of mine"
2. Noun. The juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance.
Definition of Antithesis
1. n. An opposition or contrast of words or sentiments occurring in the same sentence; as, "The prodigal robs his heir; the miser robs himself." "He had covertly shot at Cromwell; he how openly aimed at the Queen."
Definition of Antithesis
1. Noun. A proposition that is the diametric opposite of some other proposition. ¹
2. Noun. (rhetoric) A device by which two contrasting ideas are juxtaposed in parallel form. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Antithesis
1. [n -THESES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Antithesis
Literary usage of Antithesis
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1867)
"We have one primary antithesis, between the limits of which all Nature must lie;
if we assume that the factors of this antithesis can really pase over into ..."
2. The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals by Charles Darwin (1913)
"The Principle of antithesis—Instances in the dog and cat —Origin of the
principle—Conventional signs—The principle of antithesis has not arisen from ..."
3. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1856)
"The antithesis must be, let fortune raise this beggar, and let her strip and
despoil that lord of all his pomp and ornaments, &c., ..."
4. The Working Principles of Rhetoric Examined in Their Literary Relations and by John Franklin Genung (1900)
"Phases of Verbal and Phrasal antithesis. — It is impossible to construct a
conventional ... antithesis shows itself most simply and typically in a balanced ..."
5. Local Government in England by Josef Redlich, Francis Wrigley Hirst (1903)
"... II A FUNDAMENTAL antithesis A FUNDAMENTAL antithesis between centralisation
and "autonomous" decentralisation runs through the whole An antithesis of ..."
6. The Mother Tongue by Sarah Louise Arnold, George Lyman Kittredge, John Hays Gardiner (1902)
"antithesis. The possibilities of variety in the English sentence are almost infinite
... The antithesis is often emphasized by putting the contrasted words, ..."
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