noun
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the condition or quality of being contrary; contrariety.
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something inverted; reversal; inversion.
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an adversary; an opponent.
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the quality or fact of being immoderate; immoderation; excess.
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the quality of being extraordinary, exceptional; extraordinariness; exceptionality.
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unnaturalness; a rare phenomenon; abnormalism.
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an error; a mistake; a blunder.
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that which is not true; falsehood.
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a contradictory behaviour.
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(rhet.) a figure of speech in which an unreal or unreasonable quality or characteristic is used to compare with.