polarity

Main Entry:
polarity [poh-lar-i-tee, puh-]
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: opposition
Synonyms: action, antagonism, antinomy, antithesis, aversion, brush, civil disobedience, clash, combat, competition, con, conflict, confronting, contention, contest, contradiction, contradistinction, contraposition, contrariety, contrariness, counteraction, counterattack, defense, defiance, disapproval, duel, encounter, engagement, fray, grapple, hostility, negativism, obstructiveness, opposure, oppugnancy, prevention, repugnance, repulsion, resistance, rivalry, skirmish, strife, struggle, unfriendliness, violation, war, warfare
Main Entry: contradistinction
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: opposition
Synonyms: antithesis, contradiction, contraposition, contrariety, contrariness, contrast, oppositeness, polarity
Main Entry: contraposition
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: opposition
Synonyms: antithesis, contradiction, contradistinction, contrariety, contrariness, contrast, oppositeness, polarity
Main Entry: contrariety
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: opposition
Synonyms: antithesis, contradiction, contradistinction, contraposition, contrariness, contrast, oppositeness, polarity
Main Entry: contrariness
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: opposition
Synonyms: antithesis, contradiction, contradistinction, contraposition, contrariety, contrast, oppositeness, polarity
Related Words
Main Entry: contraposition
Part of Speech: noun
Related
Adjectives:
antarctic, antipodal, arctic, austral, boreal, broadside, cater, facing, fronting, heterochiral, heterolateral, inverse, kitty, northern, opposite, reverse, septentrional, southern, subcontrary
Concept Thesaurus
Concept: Contraposition.
Category: 3. Centrical dimensions; special
Synonyms:
-nouns
contraposition, opposition; polarity; inversion; opposite side; reverse, inverse; counterpart; antipodes; opposite poles, North and South., antonym, opposite (contrariety).
-verbs
be opposite; subtend.
-adjectives
opposite; reverse, inverse; converse, antipodal, subcontrary; fronting, facing, diametrically opposite, diametrically opposed., Northern, septentrional, Boreal, arctic; Southern, Austral, Antarctic.
-adverbs
over, over the way, over against; against; face to face, vis-a-vis; as poles asunder.
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Concept Thesaurus
Concept: [Noncoincidence.] Contrariety.
Category: 1. ABSOLUTE RELATION; RELATIONS
Synonyms:
-nouns
contrariety, contrast, foil, antithesis, oppositeness; contradiction; antagonism (opposition); clashing, repugnance., inversion; the opposite, the reverse, the inverse, the converse, the antipodes, the antithesis, the other extreme.
-verbs
be contrary; contrast with, oppose; differ toto coelo., invert, reverse, turn the tables; turn topsy-turvy, turn end for end, turn upside down, turn inside out., contradict, contravene; antagonize. [more].
-adjectives
contrary, contrarious, contrariant; opposite, counter, dead against; converse, reverse; opposed, antithetical, contrasted, antipodean, antagonistic, opposing; conflicting, inconsistent, contradictory, at cross purposes; negative; hostile., differing toto coelo; diametrically opposite; diametrically opposed; as opposite as black and white, as opposite as light and darkness, as opposite as fire and water, as opposite as the poles; as different as night and day; " Hyperion to a satyr" [Hamlet]; quite the contrary, quite the reverse; no such thing, just the other way, tout au contraire.
-adverbs
contrarily; contra, contrariwise, per contra, on the contrary, nay rather; vice versa; on the other hand (in compensation).
-phrases
"all concord's born of contraries" [B. Jonson]. "Thesis, antithesis, synthesis" [Marx]
Antonyms: identity
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