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Today's Word "contradistinction"

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contradistinction \kon-truh-dis-TINK-shuhn\ (noun) - Distinction by contrast; as, "sculpture in contradistinction to painting."

"And after all, what could either of them get from such a passion but a sense of his or of her own maximum self, in contradistinction to all the rest of life..." -- D.H. Lawrence, 'The Rainbow'

 

Contradistinction is contra-, from Latin contra, "against" + distinction, from Latin distinctio, from distinguere, "to distinguish."


 

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