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antitesi — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • antithesis noun The exact opposite of something, especially a person or thing that contradicts everything another stands for.

Senses

antitesi is used for these senses in English:

  • antithesis A proposition that is the diametric opposite of some other proposition.

antithesis — full definition

  1. noun The exact opposite of something, especially a person or thing that contradicts everything another stands for.
  2. noun A rhetorical device in which two contrasting ideas are set against each other in a balanced phrase or sentence.
  3. noun In philosophy, the idea that opposes an initial proposition in a dialectical argument, standing between thesis and synthesis.