antithesis

antithesis - English

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; a figure of speech arranged in this manner

Catalan: antítesi f
Chinese:
- Literary Chinese: 麗辭
- Mandarin: 對照／对照 (zh) (duìzhào), 對立／对立 (zh) (duìlì), 對偶／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, tauarotanga
Polish: antyteza (pl) f
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