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noun
1.
placement opposite or against.
2.
opposition, contrast, or antithesis.
3.
Logic. the inference drawn from a proposition by negating its terms and changing their order, as by inferring “Not B implies not A” from “A implies B.”
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Contraposition
has a plethora of syllables.
So is antidisestablishmentarianism. Does it mean:
| the estimation of something as valueless (encountered mainly as an example of one of the longest words in the English language). |
| opposition to the withdrawal of state support or recognition from an established church, esp. the Anglican Church in 19th-century England. |
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Word Origin & History
contraposition
1550s, from L. contrapositionem, noun of action from contraponere, from contra "against" + ponere "to put, place" (see position).
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