contradistinction

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a distinction made by directly contrasting one thing with another

   The essay defines civic freedom in contradistinction to freedom from all restraint.

Formed in English from contra- ("against, opposite") + distinction. Its usual construction, in contradistinction to, signals that a difference is being established specifically through contrast with another case.

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