Antithesis is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ANTITHESIS in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangement of words or clauses
• a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else
• a contrast or opposition between two things
• a rhetorical or literary device in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed
• (in Hegelian philosophy) the negation of the thesis as the second stage in the process of dialectical reasoning.
• 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.\"
• The second of two clauses forming an antithesis.
• Opposition; contrast.
• exact opposite
• the juxtaposition of contrasting words or ideas to give a feeling of balance
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the rhetorical contrast of ideas by means of parallel arrangements of words, clauses, or sentences (as in “action, not words” or “they promised freedom and provided slavery”); opposition, contrast the second of two opposing words, clauses, or sentences that are being rhetorically contrasted; the direct opposite

Words related to ANTITHESIS

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How to use ANTITHESIS in a sentence

• Possibly the antithesis to this may turn up on the cards, here.
• The very antithesis of our characters would make up a harmony.
• He struck his closed fist into the palm of his hand in his favorite gesture of anger, the antithesis of the crisp rubbing of the palms, which he so rarely used of late years.
• Kant, following Leibnitz and Lambert, uses the terms to designate the antithesis, knowledge from reason and knowledge from experience.
• Great Britain and Russia in this, as in so many other matters, are at once close kindred and sharp antithesis.
• Its antithesis made it an incomparable vehicle for satire, its rapidity for narrative.
• Indeed, the antithesis between flesh and spirit is too familiar in religious literature to need any recounting.
• And here again, there must be the same true antithesis between drunkenness and spiritual fulness.
• Ludicrous as is the antithesis, the fact it expresses is not less disastrous.
• He was the antithesis of asceticism, of gentleness, of spiritual and scholarly repose.
• The system is thus founded on dualism, the eternal antithesis between matter and soul.
• Strongly emphasizing a single word has a tendency to suggest its antithesis.
• This antithesis forms an expansion of the definition, and as such it might have been still further extended.
• A significant antithesis between his point of view in this matter and the more common attitude taken by critics in his time is illustrated by two reviews of Mrs.
• Vanity, literally meaning emptiness, is the antithesis of wisdom, and military vanity is a half-way station on the road to insanity.
• I figured it out that the antithesis of a book of poetry would be a cook book, so I hustled.
• Kingsley proposes to himself in the antithesis which he suggests to his readers.
• Pope would have been still more puzzled if asked to define precisely what he meant by the antithesis between nature and art.
• This imaginary antithesis he traces out between the Algonkin and Apalachian tribes, and between the Toltecs of Guatemala and the Aztecs of Mexico.
• Let it be observed in what antithesis they stand to most other mythological creations.
• He had already seen enough to realise that the ancient antithesis of luxury, waste and sensuality on the one hand and abject poverty on the other, still prevailed.
• Their straight features suggest a strong mixture of other than Mongolian stock and they are the direct antithesis of the Chinese in every particular.
• I will here give one other instance of antithesis in expression.
• We will now consider how the principle of antithesis in expression has arisen.
• All the movements of a cat, when feeling affectionate, are in complete antithesis to those just described.
• With respect to the expressive movements due to the principle of antithesis, it is clear that the will has intervened, though in a remote and indirect manner.
• But the men I have been trying to describe were the very antithesis of the typical British tar.
• He is not yet in love with an eneny, and to love one and hate another is no such uncommon state, as can deserve all this toil of antithesis.

Similar words containing THESI without suffix s and without prefix anti

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