contrariety

Roget category 14

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.2. Relation
›› 1.2.1. Absolute relation

#14. [Noncoincidence.] Contrariety

noun

contrariety, contrast, foil, antithesis, oppositeness — contradiction — antagonism etc. (opposition) 708 — clashing, repugnance.
inversion etc. 218 — the opposite, the reverse, the inverse, the converse, the antipodes, the antithesis, the other extreme.

verb

be contrary etc. adj. — contrast with, oppose — diller toto coelo [Lat.].
invert, reverse, turn the tables — turn topsy-turvy, turn end for end, turn upside down, turn inside out.
contradict, contravene — antagonize etc. 708.

adjective

contrary, contrarious^†, contrariant^† — opposite, counter, dead against — converse, reverse — opposed, antithetical, contrasted, antipodean, antagonistic, opposing — conflicting, inconsistent, contradictory, at cross purposes — negative — hostile etc. 703.
differing toto coelo [Lat.] — 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 [Fr.].

adverb

contrarily etc. adj. — contra, contrariwise, per contra, on the contrary, nay rather — vice versa — on the other hand etc. (in compensation) 30.

phrase

all concord's born of contraries" [B. Jonson]. Thesis, antithesis, synthesis [Marx].

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