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 Chatfield-Taylor, H. C. (Hobart Chatfield)

This will account for the oppositeness and parallelism of the statements in Matt. xxv.

From An Essay on the Scriptural Doctrine of Immortality by Challis, James

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 Betham-Edwards, Matilda

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