antistasis

English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἀντίστασις (antístasis).

Noun

Examples
We must, indeed, all hang together or, most assuredly, we shall all hang separately. Benjamin Franklin If you aren't fired with enthusiasm, you will be fired with enthusiasm. Vince Lombardi

antistasis

(rhetoric) The repetition of a word in an opposing sense.
Hyponym: antanaclasis

Usage notes

While antanaclasis means any use of the same word in two senses, antistasis denotes an especially contrastive, even contrary, difference between the senses.

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