antithesis
noun [usually singular] (formal)the opposite of something 对立（面）；对照 Love is the antithesis of selfishness. 爱是自私的对立面。 Students finishing their education at 16 is the very antithesis of what society needs. 16 岁停止学业的学生恰恰无法满足社会的需要。 The current establishment is the antithesis of democracy. 目前的当权派是民主的对立面。
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a contrast between two things （二者间的）对比，对照 There is an antithesis between the needs of the state and the needs of the people. 政府的需要和人民的需要这二者存在着对立。 the sharp antithesis between their views 他们观点的尖锐对立
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- absolute
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Word Originlate Middle English (originally denoting the substitution of one grammatical case for another): from late Latin, from Greek antitithenai ‘set against’, from anti ‘against’ + tithenai ‘to place’. The earliest current sense, denoting a rhetorical or literary device, dates from the early 16th cent.