What's the difference between antithesis and thesis?

Antithesis


Definition:

  • (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”.

Thesis


Definition:

  • (n.) A position or proposition which a person advances and offers to maintain, or which is actually maintained by argument.
  • (n.) Hence, an essay or dissertation written upon specific or definite theme; especially, an essay presented by a candidate for a diploma or degree.
  • (n.) An affirmation, or distinction from a supposition or hypothesis.
  • (n.) The accented part of the measure, expressed by the downward beat; -- the opposite of arsis.
  • (n.) The depression of the voice in pronouncing the syllables of a word.
  • (n.) The part of the foot upon which such a depression falls.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Why would you want to boost him?” The president is accused of trying to distract from domestic problems – corruption scandals and an exposé showing he plagiarised parts of his law-school thesis – by attending to Trump.
  • (2) Data interpretation confirms the well-known thesis that reproductive health protection is not only of a medical and biological but of very wide interdisciplinary interest when the woman is on the brink of the important for her personally and finally for the society as well decision pro and con real pregnancy.
  • (3) The data favor the thesis that neutralization of BVD virus occurs by a multi-hit mechanism and requires combination of at least two molecules of antibody with each virus.
  • (4) Clinical material is used to illustrate this thesis.
  • (5) I went to work at Carville at the invitation of Dr. Kirchheimer, who had seen my Ph.D. thesis.
  • (6) The striking weakness of Clegg's thesis was what it left out in its attempt to carve out a position for restless party activists as their poll ratings dip (down to 14% according to ICM) as Miliband tones down his own anti-Lib Dem rhetoric to woo them.
  • (7) The thesis considered was that angiotensin II may have a greater role in the fetus than in the adult since the autonomic nervous system does not develop fully until late in gestation.
  • (8) My immediate suspicion is that the pupil is taking the same course as the master, though I accept it is a large thesis to hang on beige furnishings.
  • (9) Doctors who were general practitioners in the period 1973-88 and had written a successful MD or PhD thesis were identified.
  • (10) A leaked cabinet committee memo in 2010 showed coalition ministers were advised on coming into government that it was wrong "to regard radicalisation in this country as a linear 'conveyor belt' moving from grievance, through radicalisation, to violence … This thesis seems to both misread the radicalisation process and to give undue weight to ideological factors".
  • (11) The present thesis focuses on the etiology, diagnosis, progression and prevention of dentoalveolar ankylosis.
  • (12) As previously observed the fraction that escapes depends on the solvent viscosity [Marden, M. C. (1983) Ph.D. Thesis, University of Illinois-Urbana].
  • (13) Hakim is keen to stress that her thesis is "evidence based" and nothing to do with prejudice or ideology, and finishes her introduction with this rallying cry: "why not champion femininity rather than abolish it?
  • (14) The results obtained will allow to test experimentally the theoretical predictions made by A. Goldbeter (1973) PhD thesis, Université Libre de Bruxelles, on the distribution of carbamoyl phosphate and the oscillation of its intracellular concentration.
  • (15) These data support the thesis that cell transport of calcium is accomplished by the attachment of calcium atoms to the cell surface and transport through the plasma membrane bound to either specific carriers or to membrane constituents.
  • (16) To illustrate his thesis he presents the case history of a man who was fatally affected by the family myth and mystification process.
  • (17) The present studies were designed to estimate fetal weight on the basis of the thesis that the factors which determine body weight include the fetal bone and the amount of fetal soft tissue, i.e., fetal corpulence.
  • (18) We describe an approach that is based on the thesis that dermatologists can and often should treat such patients.
  • (19) For that reason the electron microscope method with an optically higher resolution was chosen for this thesis.
  • (20) Both polyribosomes and 70S ribosomes that were isolated on sucrose density gra dients and tested separately in cell-free systems were capable of protein syn thesis; however, polyribosomes formed more protein per unit of RNA than monosomes did.