Ambiguity vs Antithesis - What's the difference?
ambiguity | antithesis |
(countable) Something, particulary words and sentences, that is open to more than one interpretation, explanation or meaning, if that meaning etc cannot be determined from its context.
(uncountable) The state of being ambiguous.
A proposition that is the diametric opposite of some other proposition.
(rhetoric) A device by which two contrasting ideas are juxtaposed in parallel form.
As nouns the difference between ambiguity and antithesis
is that ambiguity is (countable) something, particulary words and sentences, that is open to more than one interpretation, explanation or meaning, if that meaning etc cannot be determined from its context while antithesis is a proposition that is the diametric opposite of some other proposition.ambiguity
English
(wikipedia ambiguity)Noun
- His speech was made with such great ambiguity that neither supporter nor opponent could be certain of his true position.