mutual opposition

1. 1.

   a relation between two opposite attributes or tendencies

   “he viewed it as a balanced polarity between good and evil”

   Synonymspolarity

   Broaderopposition

Questions about mutual opposition

What does mutual opposition mean?

mutual opposition means "a relation between two opposite attributes or tendencies".

What is another word for mutual opposition?

Close synonyms include polarity. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is mutual opposition a common word?

mutual opposition is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.