Definitions for antitheses

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antitheses an·tith·e·sis

Spelling: [an-tith-uh-sis]

IPA: /ænˈtɪθ ə sɪs/

Antitheses is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 522 anagrams from letters in antitheses (aeehinsstt).

Definitions for antitheses

noun

1. opposition; contrast:
2. the direct opposite (usually followed by of or to):
3. Rhetoric. the placing of a sentence or one of its parts against another to which it is opposed to form a balanced contrast of ideas, as in “Give me liberty or give me death.”. the second sentence or part thus set in opposition, as “or give me death.”.
4. Philosophy. See under Hegelian dialectic.
5. an interpretive method, originally used to relate specific entities or events to the absolute idea, in which some assertible proposition (thesis) is necessarily opposed by an equally assertible and apparently contradictory proposition (antithesis) the mutual contradiction being reconciled on a higher level of truth by a third proposition (synthesis)

Origin of antitheses

1520-30; Latin Greek: opposition, equivalent to anti(ti)thé(nai) to oppose + -sis -sis. See anti-, thesis

Examples for antitheses

Is it just a mechanical union of two antitheses, or is it something more?

It is sublime in its similes and exquisite in its antitheses.

Yet the understanding cannot release itself from the fixity of these antitheses.

Grace and its works are the antitheses of the devil and his works.

The antitheses were clear, even as Lincoln saw them in 1858.

Their antitheses were fully in harmony with existence, which is itself a contradiction in terms.

These antitheses might be produced indefinitely, but enough has been said.

As Kant conceives a form of perception, it involves three antitheses.

The answer is that the union is one of complementaries, and not of antitheses.

We talked of our grief in maxims, and bade each other adieu in antitheses.