Concept

Opposite

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word with opposite meaning to a given word

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Let me sketch my meaning in outline. An instance of the use of the word 'opposite' with reference to correlatives is afforded by the expressions 'double' and 'half'; with reference to contraries by 'bad' and 'good'. Opposites in the sense of 'privatives' and 'positives' are 'blindness' and 'sight'; in the sense of affirmatives and negatives, the propositions 'he sits', 'he does not sit'. (i) Pairs of opposites which…
Aristotle, The Categories
Names Opposite several times.
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Maybe the representation through its opposite is indebted for such a preference to the fact that it forms the nucleus of another pleasurable mode of mental expression, for an understanding of which we do not have to consult the unconscious. I refer to _irony_, which is very similar to wit and is considered a subspecies of the comic.
Sigmund Freud, Wit and its relation to the unconscious
Names Opposite several times; states what Opposite is.
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[Sidenote: Distinguish:—The things in which the opposites inhere generate into and out of one another: never the opposites themselves.] Socrates inclined his head to the speaker and listened. I like your courage, he said, in reminding us of this. But you do not observe that there is a difference in the two cases.
Plato, The dialogues of Plato in five volumes, Vol. 2
Names Opposite several times; states what Opposite is.
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