antithesis

English

Borrowed from Latin antithesis, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀντίθεσις (antíthesis). By surface analysis, anti- +‎ thesis.

Examples (rhetoric)
Abraham Lincoln, Gettysburg Address (1863) The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

antithesis (plural antitheses)

A proposition that is the diametric opposite of some other proposition.
(rhetoric) A device by which two contrasting ideas are juxtaposed in parallel form; a figure of speech arranged in this manner
- 1835, L[arret] Langley, A Manual of the Figures of Rhetoric, […], Doncaster: Printed by C. White, Baxter-Gate, →OCLC, page 22:
  Antithesis, opposing things to things,
  Oft from the contrast strength and beauty brings.
(philosophy) The second stage of a dialectical process in which the thesis is negated.

proposition that is opposite to other proposition

Catalan: antítesi f
Chinese:
Literary Chinese: 麗辭 (lìcí)

Mandarin: 對照／对照 (zh) (duìzhào), 對立／对立 (zh) (duìlì), 對偶／对偶 (zh) (duì'ǒu)
Czech: antiteze f
Dutch: antithese (nl)
Esperanto: antitezo
Finnish: antiteesi (fi), vastakohta (fi)
French: antithèse (fr) f
German: Antithese (de) f
Greek: αντίθεση (el) f (antíthesi)
Ancient: ἀντίθεσις f (antíthesis)
Hindi: प्रतिपक्ष (hi) (pratipakṣ)
Hungarian: antitézis (hu)
Indonesian: antitesis (id)
Italian: antitesi (it) f
Japanese: 対照 (ja) (たいしょう, taishō), アンチテーゼ (anchitēze)
Maori: kupu tauaro, tauarotanga
Polish: antyteza (pl) f
Portuguese: antítese (pt) f
Russian: антите́за (ru) f (antitɛ́za), антите́зис (ru) m (antitɛ́zis), противополо́жность (ru) f (protivopolóžnostʹ)
Serbo-Croatian: antiteza (sh) f
Slovene: antiteza f
Spanish: antítesis f
Swahili: tabaini
Swedish: antites (sv) c
Tagalog: gantintikha
Ukrainian: антите́за (uk) f (antytéza)

figure of speech

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