1 the exact opposite, or opposition: --
[ C ] The relaxed company management is the antithesis of a formal bureaucracy.
In order to discredit modern architecture, he needed to ratify its antithesis.
Historians have seen in his occult activities a penchant for forging unities from antitheses, thus having latent political import.
He used the most extravagant metaphors, the most forced antitheses and the most far-fetched conceits.
Again, there is no fixed antithesis between the human and the spirit worlds.
Internally, the environment is the antithesis of tradition, bathed in the northern light.
The zar becomes the antithesis of a - desired - and male-controlled - modernity.
In the second grade of consciousness there is self-consciousness, and hence a grasp of the antithesis between the self and the world.
The higher consciousness can only exist insofar as it is related to the antithesis of the sensible self-consciousness between self and world.
