antithesis

English

Borrowed from Latin antithesis, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ἀντίθεσις (antíthesis). 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.

proposition that is opposite to other proposition

Catalan: antítesi f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 對照 (zh), 对照 (zh) (duìzhào), 對立 (zh), 对立 (zh) (duìlì), 對偶 (zh), 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)

Hungarian: antitézis (hu)
Italian: antitesi (it) f
Japanese: 対照 (ja) (たいしょう, taishō), アンチテーゼ (anchitēze)
Maori: kupu tauaro
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
Swedish: antites (sv) c
Tagalog: gantintikha

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