antithesis

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  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).
  2. A device by which two contrasting ideas are juxtaposed in parallel form; a figure of speech arranged in this manner rhetoric
    — Antithesis, opposing things to things, Oft from the contrast strength and beauty brings.
  3. The second stage of a dialectical process in which the thesis is negated.

词形变化

antitheses plural

词源

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