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Word choice: Antithesis

Antithesis:

NOUN - plural antitheses

1. opposition; contrast:
the antithesis of right and wrong.

2. the direct opposite (usually followed by of or to):
Her behavior was the very antithesis of cowardly.

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.