different between antithesis vs counterterm

English

Borrowed from Latin antithesis, itself a borrowing from Ancient Greek ????????? (antíthesis). Surface analysis: anti- +? thesis.

antithesis (plural antitheses)

A proposition that is the diametric opposite of some other proposition.
(rhetoric) A device by which two contrasting ideas are juxtaposed in parallel form; a figure of speech arranged in this manner

counter- +? term

counterterm (plural counterterms)

antithesis
antonym
(mathematics) A term added to an equation or formula that exactly cancels the contribution of another term which diverges.

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