Contrast between two things

Usage examples of antithesis.

It had been established sixty years before, during the Affluence, and was the antithesis of that florid civilization.

Thinly veiled, but never expressed overtly, was the idea that much of our assimilationist rhetoric arose in direct antithesis to the perceived practices of our many immigrants from Mexico.

So there was Emily Kane, sitting very upright in her chair at the end of the table, with Joe Mansell, a heavy man with gross features and a hearty laugh, seated on one side of her, and on the other, her great-nephew Clement, the very antithesis of Joe Mansell but equally displeasing to her.

This imaginary antithesis he traces out between the Algonkin and Apalachian tribes, and between the Toltecs of Guatemala and the Aztecs of Mexico.

The very antithesis of commodified fantasy, this book exhibits rare emotion and invention, being rich with both event and meaning.

Ellen Glasser was a petite woman and a mother of four the very antithesis of the image most laymen have of an FBI agent.

One would think on a world of lesser gravity that the denizens would be beanpoles -- the vertical antithesis of the Lusian barrel shape -- but most of the men, women, and children I saw in the busy lanes and towpaths along the river were almost as short and stocky as Lusians.

In novels, Utopias, essays, films, pamphlets, the antithesis crops up, always more or less the same.

They were not tuned to recognize pseudorealism, for that is the antithesis of Civilized Art.

Simile, Metaphor, Personification, Allegory, Synechdoche, Metonymy, Exclamation, Hyperbole, Apostrophe, Vision, Antithesis, Climax, Epigram, Interrogation and Irony.

If one looks through nearly any book that he has written in the last forty years one finds the same idea constantly recurring: the supposed antithesis between the man of science who is working towards a planned World State and the reactionary who is trying to restore a disorderly past.

When Wells was young, the antithesis between science and reaction was not false.

Eddie, although Allan Albright was the antithesis of his kind of man, had grown far more fond of Allan thanhe had thought possible.

A century after More, the Italian Dominican friar Tommaso Campanella wrote The City of the Sun, which to a great extent is an antithesis to Plato, but with Big Brother still present.

In many respects this is an antithesis to his earlier films, in which an innocent man is made the victim of credulity, ignorance and hate which grows into a lynching.