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Definitions for opposites
op·po·sites
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word opposites.
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of opposites in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of opposites in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
Examples of opposites in a Sentence
It's one of the most interesting counties that no one ever talks about in New Hampshire because it's got this mix of polar opposites, very strong liberal Democrats and Tea Party Republicans. It should be a place where Donald Trump does well if he's going to do well anywhere, in working class mill cities like say Rochester and Somersworth.
Light is meaningful only in relation to darkness, and truth presupposes error. It is these mingled opposites which people our life, which make it pungent, intoxicating. We only exist in terms of this conflict, in the zone where black and white clash.
Unless a man or woman has experienced the darkness of the soul he or she can know nothing of that transforming laughter without which no hint of the ultimate reality of the opposites can be faintly intuited.
Love and hate are not opposites. The opposite of love is indifference.
Hippocrates c. 460-400 BC, Breaths, bk. I:
Opposites are cures for opposites.
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