(n.) An opposition or contrast of words or sentiments occurring in the same sentence; as, "The prodigal robs his heir; the miser robs himself." "He had covertly shot at Cromwell; he how openly aimed at the Queen."
(n.) The second of two clauses forming an antithesis.
(n.) Opposition; contrast.
Example Sentences:
(1) If he’s being charged with publishing false information that seems to be the antithesis of his practice.” Bahgat writes a daily press review for Mada Masr as well as investigative pieces.
(2) The phychological aspects of language show an antithesis between learned and profane languages.
(3) "I got interested in writing about police corruption , it was a different angle, a police version of Bodies: very grown-up, it had mature themes, an antithesis of the escapist cop show.
(4) Mrs Tsvangirai was widely respected in Zimbabwe as the antithesis of President Robert Mugabe's extravagant and free-spending wife, Grace, who showed little concern for the plight of the many hungry and poor in her country.
(5) Ford, to them, is the antithesis of all that liberal namby-pambyness: he's the ordinary working man (albeit one who buys crack) and a good family guy (albeit one who has been repeatedly accused of sexual harassment and who, when asked if he ever told a colleague he wanted to "eat her pussy" he replied that he has "plenty enough to eat at home").
(6) "It is the very antithesis of big data, where you collect every bit of information that you can get hold of and send the lot to a processing centre, which gets clogged up in the process.
(7) In several of these neutrophil abnormalities, ie, neutrophil actin dysfunction, Chédiak-Higashi syndrome, and its "antithesis" described by Gallin and co-workers, the cellular dysfunctions were well documented but the molecular basis was completely obscure prior to cell biologic analysis.
(8) No: the clear winner in this elite-loathing, privilege-hating, populism-riven island is surely the quiet billionaire: Jonathan Harold Esmond Vere Harmsworth, 4th Viscount Rothermere , who emerges ever more obviously as the very antithesis of Lord C. He runs a successful, increasingly diversified business empire.
(9) The investment arm of UK-based Aviva, which manages assets worth $522bn, is the latest international financier to flag concerns over the Carmichael coalmine , which it said could become a “stranded asset” and was “the antithesis of what was needed” ahead of key UN climate talks in Paris in December.
(10) With the Somali women who were the antithesis of the stereotyped, subjugated Muslim female – strong, proud, fighters to the end.
(11) Juventus were rocked when Antonio Conte quit last summer, and further stunned when he was replaced by Allegri, who was fired by Milan months earlier and appeared to be the antithesis of the beloved former coach.
(12) A new nuclear arms race, new states possessing nuclear weapons, and a breakdown of the nonproliferation regime are the antithesis of those goals.
(13) They are the antithesis of the right therapeutics of obesities.
(14) Experiments leading to these conclusions were discussed, the heterogeneity of accessory immune cells is shown, and as an antithesis the possibility emerges that processing is not conditio sine qua non.
(15) And now it’s become the phenomenon that it is.” McKerrow said the show was the “antithesis” of all the norms of a competitive reality TV show.
(16) But they are also the antithesis of conventional political organisation.
(17) The "cot-death syndrome" model is a definition of a non-reality and the antithesis of a scientific model.
(18) Issa's look is the antithesis of fashion eccentrics such as Anna Dello Russo, and has real-life appeal.
(19) I interviewed G-Unit once (minus the banged-up Tony Yayo) and they were the antithesis of the sullen, aggressive rapper stereotype (although they did turn their noses up at the very idea of letting any of the "British food" at their 5-star hotel pass their lips, and sent their manager out for a McDonalds instead).
(20) The sentencing judge told him that he had indulged in “the antithesis of democracy”.
Averse
Definition:
(a.) Turned away or backward.
(a.) Having a repugnance or opposition of mind; disliking; disinclined; unwilling; reluctant.
(v. t. & i.) To turn away.
Example Sentences:
(1) Consequently, the present data indicate that training-induced changes in the CS-evoked activity of PFCm cells are significantly related to aversively conditioned bradycardia in rabbits.
(2) It is concluded that in the mouse model the ability of buspirone to reduce the aversive response to a brightly illuminated area may reflect an anxiolytic action, that the dorsal raphe nucleus may be an important locus of action, and that the effects of buspirone may reflect an interaction at 5-hydroxytryptamine receptors.
(3) The electrical stimulation of the tail associated to a restraint condition of the rat produces a significant increase of immunoreactive DYN in cervical, thoracic and lumbar segments of spinal cord, therefore indicating a correlative, if not causal, relationship between the spinal dynorphinergic system and aversive stimuli.
(4) Cadavers have a multitude of possible uses--from the harvesting of organs, to medical education, to automotive safety testing--and yet their actual utilization arouses profound aversion no matter how altruistic and beneficial the motivation.
(5) Fish were trained monocularly via the compressed or the normal visual field using an aversive classical conditioning model.
(6) A sequence of seven pairings of chili-flavored diet with prompt recovery from thiamine deficiency did significantly attenuate the innate aversion and may have induced a chili preference in at least one case.
(7) Testing of CGRP (ICV) in both single bottle conditioned-aversion and differential starvation paradigms was done.
(8) The differential results obtained in the present series of experiments with vagotomy and NaCl-induced short-term and long-term aversion learning suggest that the vagal system plays a decisive role in tasks requiring the rapid detection of an aversive substance in the gastrointestinal tract (short-term tasks).
(9) An experimental investigation of acupuncture's analgesic potency, separated from suggestion effects, is described, in which judgments of shock-elicited pain of the forearm were recorded along two separate scales: intensity and aversiveness.
(10) It was possible to achieve this very clear result although a strong aversion to animal experiments and a critical attitude toward biological research exist in Switzerland, as well as in other European countries.
(11) The characteristic heart rate deceleration shown immediately prior to the aversive stimulus by control subjects was absent in the schizophrenic group.
(12) The threshold for stimulation-produced analgesia or aversion, whichever was lowest, was determined before and after drug administration.
(13) However, they do indicate that cocaine is only a weak aversion-inducing agent.
(14) Insecure infant attachment at 16 months was associated with maternal perception of overcontrol, depressed mood state, and aversive conditioning to the impending cry in the laboratory task at the 5-month period.
(15) When the rats were given the two-bottle taste aversion test neither compound was found to be aversive.
(16) These results suggest that pharmacological doses of CCK-8 can act as an aversive stimulus during conditioning.
(17) In contrast, periadolescent animals demonstrated a marked resistance to amphetamine's taste aversion inducing properties when compared with either infant or young adult animals.
(18) In the first experiment operated rats were compared with control rats in the acquisition of a learned alcohol aversion.
(19) In the WikiLeaks cables, the US ambassador in Berlin characterised the chancellor as "risk-averse and seldom creative".
(20) In the 2 hr condition, weaker aversions were exhibited and again the 35% EDC group showed the least aversion.