a person or thing that is the direct opposite of someone or something else
对立的人（或事）；人（或事物）的对立面
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love is the antithesis of selfishness. 爱与自私是对立的。
a contrast or opposition between two things
（两个事物间的）对照，对应
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the antithesis between occult and rational mentalities. 超自然心态和理性心态之间的对立。
[mass noun]a rhetorical or literary device in which an opposition or contrast of ideas is expressed by parallelism of words which are the opposites of, or strongly contrasted with, each other
（修辞手法）对偶。
[mass noun](in Hegelian philosophy)the negation of the thesis as the second stage in the process of dialectical reasoning
(黑格尔哲学用语）反题。比较
"late Middle English (originally denoting the substitution of one grammatical case for another）： from late Latin, from Greek