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What is a contradistinction?

What is a contradistinction? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. Distinction by contrast; the provision of one example against which another example may be defined.
  2. The quality of being contradistinctive.
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In contradistinction, the other half of the biennial is made up of work from elsewhere in the world.
In perfect contradistinction is the tangy, crunchy coleslaw.
What this serves to do is reinscribe and produce the identity of the middle-class consumer subject in contradistinction to that of the common working masses.
In contradistinction, this is a philosophy that ought to be at the core of a democratic society, committed to openness, transparency and accountability.
In contradistinction to less reflective celebrants of all things Irish, Kiberd willingly embraces the invented character of contemporary Irish culture.
Thanks partly to Thomas, the concert orchestra became an American specialty, in contradistinction to the pit orchestras of Europe.

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