antithesis

(noun)

A device by which two contrasting ideas are juxtaposed in parallel form.

Examples of antithesis in the following topics:

  • Antithesis

    • Antithesis is a counter-proposition that denotes a direct contrast to the original proposition.
    • Antithesis is a way to express contrast through direct opposites.
    • Light is the antithesis of dark, heaven is the antithesis of hell, and some would even say that cats are the antithesis of dogs.
    • Antithesis is also a way to describe contrasting ideas or themes: genocide is the antithesis of world peace, for example.
    • Black is the antithesis of white and vice-versa.
  • Painting and Sculpture

    • The rationalism and simplicity of classical architecture was seen by contemporaries in the Age of Enlightenment as the antithesis of the backward-looking Gothic aesthetic style.
  • Marx and the "Opiate of the Masses"

    • The antithesis to this alienation is freedom.
  • Culture-Specific Nuances of Decision-Making

    • The antithesis is essentially 'counter-culture' culture, which dictates the opposite decision-making influence.
  • Architecture

    • French Neoclassicism continued to be a major force in academic art through the nineteenth century and beyond— a constant antithesis to Romanticism or Gothic revivals.
  • Revolution in France

    • The rationalism and simplicity of classical architecture was seen — in the Age of Enlightenment — as the antithesis of the backward-looking Gothic.
  • Social Impacts of Monopoly

    • In a perfectly competitive market, the antithesis of a monopoly, demand is completely elastic and the production quantity and price point align perfectly with marginal costs and actual costs .
  • New Media for Art

    • It therefore tended to be defined as the antithesis to theatre, challenging orthodox art forms and cultural norms.
  • The Challenge of Competition

    • Quality is therefore a strong antithesis to the low-cost strategy.
  • Jefferson's Agrarian Policy

    • The Jeffersonian conception of the yeoman farmer as the model republican citizen developed under a rising fear that the aggressive Federalist promotion of industry and commerce would lead to the growth of a class of wage laborers dependent on others for income and sustenance (the antithesis of the independent, republican citizen).
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