antithesis

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

45 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Catalan: antítesi — proposition that is opposite to other proposition
• Literary Chinese: 麗辭 (lìcí) — proposition that is opposite to other proposition
• Chinese Mandarin: 對照 /对照 (duìzhào) — proposition that is opposite to other proposition
• Chinese Mandarin: 對立 /对立 (duìlì) — proposition that is opposite to other proposition
• Chinese Mandarin: 對偶 /对偶 (duì'ǒu) — proposition that is opposite to other proposition
• Czech: antiteze — proposition that is opposite to other proposition
• Danish: antitese — proposition that is opposite to other proposition
• Dutch: antithese — proposition that is opposite to other proposition
• Esperanto: antitezo — proposition that is opposite to other proposition
• Finnish: antiteesi — proposition that is opposite to other proposition
• Finnish: vastakohta — proposition that is opposite to other proposition
• French: antithèse — proposition that is opposite to other proposition
• German: Antithese — proposition that is opposite to other proposition
• Greek: αντίθεση (antíthesi) — proposition that is opposite to other proposition
• Ancient Greek: ἀντίθεσις (antíthesis) — proposition that is opposite to other proposition
• Hindi: प्रतिपक्ष (pratipakṣ) — proposition that is opposite to other proposition
• Hungarian: antitézis — proposition that is opposite to other proposition
• Indonesian: antitesis — proposition that is opposite to other proposition
• Irish: fritéis — proposition that is opposite to other proposition
• Italian: antitesi — proposition that is opposite to other proposition
• Japanese: 対照 (taishō) — proposition that is opposite to other proposition
• Japanese: アンチテーゼ (anchitēze) — proposition that is opposite to other proposition
• Kazakh: шендестіру (şendestıru) — proposition that is opposite to other proposition
• Māori: kupu tauaro — proposition that is opposite to other proposition
• Māori: tauarotanga — proposition that is opposite to other proposition
• Polish: antyteza — proposition that is opposite to other proposition
• Portuguese: antítese — proposition that is opposite to other proposition
• Romanian: antiteză — proposition that is opposite to other proposition
• Russian: антите́за (antitɛ́za) — proposition that is opposite to other proposition
• Russian: антите́зис (antitɛ́zis) — proposition that is opposite to other proposition
• Russian: противополо́жность (protivopolóžnostʹ) — proposition that is opposite to other proposition
• Serbo-Croatian: antiteza — proposition that is opposite to other proposition
• Slovene: antiteza — proposition that is opposite to other proposition
• Spanish: antítesis — proposition that is opposite to other proposition
• Swahili: tabaini — proposition that is opposite to other proposition
• Swedish: antites — proposition that is opposite to other proposition
• Tagalog: gantintikha — proposition that is opposite to other proposition
• Thai: ภาวะแย้ง — proposition that is opposite to other proposition
• Ottoman Turkish: طباق (tıbâk) — proposition that is opposite to other proposition
• Ukrainian: антите́за (antytéza) — proposition that is opposite to other proposition
• Vietnamese: phản đề — proposition that is opposite to other proposition
• Welsh: gwrthosodiad — proposition that is opposite to other proposition
• Old Norse: refhvǫrf — figure of speech
• Telugu: వికల్పము (vikalpamu) — figure of speech
• Ottoman Turkish: طباق (tıbâk) — figure of speech