antitheses
Meaning of antitheses
- a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else.
love is the antithesis of selfishness
- (in Hegelian philosophy) the negation of the thesis as the second stage in the process of dialectical reasoning.
late Middle English (originally denoting the substitution of one grammatical case for another): from late Latin, from Greek antitithenai ‘set against’, from anti ‘against’ + tithenai ‘to place’. The earliest current sense, denoting a rhetorical or literary device, dates from the early 16th century.
Information about antitheses
- It is a name.
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Hyphenation of antitheses
an-tithe-ses
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- antitheses is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
antitheses synonyms
Meaning conversation:
Meaning the opposite to that previously stated:
Meaning a change to an opposite direction, position, or course of action:
Meaning something that is the opposite or reverse of something else:
Meaning the side of a coin or medal bearing the head or principal design:
Words that rhyme with antitheses
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