antithesis

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the exact opposite:

She is slim and shy - the very antithesis of her sister.

He is the exact antithesis of what I find attractive in men.

a difference or opposition between two things:

Thanks to the collapse of communism the political antithesis between Left and Right is less important.

the exact opposite, or opposition:

[ C ] The relaxed company management is the antithesis of a formal bureaucracy.

In formal argument, the antithesis is the opposite of the thesis (= the main idea).