<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>opposition; contrast: the antithesis of right and wrong</li><li>the direct opposite (usually followed by of or to): Her behavior was the very antithesis of cowardly</li><li>Synonyms: reverse, opposite</li><li>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.”</li><li>the second sentence or part thus set in opposition, as “or give me death.”</li><li>Philosophy: Hegelian dialectic</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>