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Antithesis vs Perioecus - What's the difference?

antithesis | perioecus |

As nouns the difference between antithesis and perioecus

is that antithesis is a proposition that is the diametric opposite of some other proposition while perioecus is (obsolete) someone living on the same latitude as someone else, but on a different or opposite side of the world; one's antithesis.

antithesis

English

Noun

(antitheses)
  • A proposition that is the diametric opposite of some other proposition.
  • (rhetoric) A device by which two contrasting ideas are juxtaposed in parallel form.

    • Antonyms

    * epitome

    Related terms

    * antithetical

    perioecus

    English

    Alternative forms

    *

    Noun

    (perioeci)
  • (obsolete) Someone living on the same latitude as someone else, but on a different or opposite side of the world; one's antithesis.
  • *, II.ii.3:
  • *:How comes it to pass, that in the same site, in one latitude, to such as are periœci , there should be such difference of soil, complexion, colour, metal, air, etc.