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binary opposition

noun

, Linguistics.
  1. a relation between the members of a pair of linguistic items, as a pair of distinctive features, such that one is the absence of the other, as voicelessness and voice, or that one is at the opposite pole from the other, as stridency and mellowness.


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Word History and Origins

Origin of binary opposition1

First recorded in 1950–55

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