Definition of Opposition

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Opposition

The act of opposing; an attempt to check, restrain, or defeat; resistance.

The state of being placed over against; situation so as to front something else.

Repugnance; contrariety of sentiment, interest, or purpose; antipathy.

That which opposes; an obstacle; specifically, the aggregate of persons or things opposing; hence, in politics and parliamentary practice, the party opposed to the party in power.

The situation of a heavenly body with respect to another when in the part of the heavens directly opposite to it; especially, the position of a planet or satellite when its longitude differs from that of the sun 180�; -- signified by the symbol /; as, / / /, opposition of Jupiter to the sun.

The relation between two propositions when, having the same subject and predicate, they differ in quantity, or in quality, or in both; or between two propositions which have the same matter but a different form.

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Opposition Quotations

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein

I have spent many years of my life in opposition, and I rather like the role.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Opposition is not necessarily enmity; it is merely misused and made an occasion for enmity.
Sigmund Freud

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach himself.
Thomas Paine

The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism.
Karl Marx

If the opposition disarms, well and good. If it refuses to disarm, we shall disarm it ourselves.
Joseph Stalin

Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.
Jane Austen

Opposition is true friendship.
William Blake

To you I'm an atheist; to God, I'm the Loyal Opposition.
Woody Allen

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.
Virginia Woolf

Opposition Translations

opposition in Dutch is oppositie, tegenstand
opposition in Finnish is vastustus
opposition in German is Gegensatz, Gegenseite
opposition in Italian is opposizione, antagonismo
opposition in Latin is contradictio

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