oppositeness
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As they slowly built the igloo up on an ever-decreasing circumference, I watched with a sense of the anti-material oppositeness of the thing ...
From Time Magazine Archive
Florence Moreland was the only other American in the school, and to her Marion was attracted by the very oppositeness of her nature.
From With Edge Tools by H. C. (Hobart Chatfield) Chatfield-Taylor
Dearly as we love home and home-folk, the gist of travel lies in oppositeness and surprises.
From In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" by Matilda Betham-Edwards
But it should be borne in mind that the oppositeness of their nature does not necessarily mean conflict.
From The Law and the Word by T. (Thomas) Troward
Thus, to give full interpretation in geometry to the algebraically negative, it was only necessary to associate distinctness of sign with oppositeness of direction.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 6 "Geodesy" to "Geometry" by Various
