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What is an antithesis?

What is an antithesis? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A proposition that is the diametric opposite of some other proposition.
  2. (rhetoric) A device by which two contrasting ideas are juxtaposed in parallel form.
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It is the antithesis of the still-prevailing Greek worldview which adulates logic and the laws of nature as absolute.
He gets a job working for IBM, the acme of corporate, conformist paternalism, the antithesis of bohemianism.
Dapper of dress and genial of manner, Corbett seems the antithesis of the tortured comic suffering endless agonies for his art.
This suggestion is objectionable to airmen and is the antithesis of US Air Force aerospace-power doctrine.
Both symbolized values that were the antithesis of Soviet Marxism and Americanized consumerism.
Since stagnation is the antithesis of growth, it is also the antithesis of life.

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