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UNGRADABLE OPPOSITION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An opposition that has no intermediate grade; either one or the other
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("ungradable opposition" is a kind of...):
oppositeness; opposition (the relation between opposed entities)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "ungradable opposition"):
complementarity (a relation between two opposite states or principles that together exhaust the possibilities)