contradistinction
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- (America) IPA: /ˌkɒntɹədɪˈstɪŋkʃn̩/
contradistinction (plural contradistinctions)
- Distinction by contrast; the provision of one example against which another example may be defined.
- 1911: Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
- Pantheism n
- The doctrine that everything is God, in contradistinction to the doctrine that God is everything.
- Pantheism n
- We used hamburgers and soda in contradistinction to healthy food.
- 1911: Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
- The quality of being contradistinctive.
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