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antitheses

antitheses is the plural of antithesis.

Meaning of antithesis

Noun

antithesis (plural antitheses)

  1. A proposition that is the diametric opposite of some other proposition.
    • For if every condition of everything conditioned (according to its existence) is sensuous, and therefore belongs to the series, that series is again conditioned (as shown in the antithesis of the fourth antinomy).1881, Immanuel Kant, translated by F. Max Müller, Critique of Pure Reason, translation of original in German, page 486
  2. (rhetoric) A device by which two contrasting ideas are juxtaposed in parallel form; a figure of speech arranged in this manner
    • Antithesis, opposing things to things,
      Oft from the contrast strength and beauty brings.1835, L[arret] Langley, “[Rhetorical Figures.] Antithesis.”, in A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster, South Yorkshire: […] C. White, […], →OCLC, page 22
  3. The second stage of a dialectical process in which the thesis is negated.

Questions about antitheses

What is antitheses the plural of?
Antitheses is the plural of antithesis.

Words near antitheses in the dictionary

  1. antitheoretical
  2. antitherapeutic
  3. antitherapy
  4. antithermic
  5. antithermogenic
  6. antitheses
  7. antithesis
  8. antithesise
  9. antithesised
  10. antithesises
  11. antithesising

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