The word "antithesis" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a contrast or opposition between two things or ideas. For example: "The antithesis between light and dark is a common theme throughout literature and art."
A sort of photographic antithesis of Bobby Moore's post shirt-swap embrace with Pelé in 1970, it is one of the iconic World Cup images.
It's the antithesis of democracy Maina Kiai, UN rapporteur on the freedom of peaceful assembly The 23-year-old single mother says she withdrew from anti-racism campaigning as she was left "feeling violated, isolated, vulnerable and paranoid" by the attempted recruitment.
Croatian designer Damir Doma's aesthetics may be the antithesis of Ostwald Helgason's but he's just as clever at using fabric to create illusions of layers and draping.
Related: Jeremy Clarkson: a history of BBC Top Gear controversies Yet Clarkson, who has made an estimated £30m from the show, had built a reputation as the antithesis of the corporation man, taking apparent pride in his straight-talking ways.
The debut feature for television director John Hay, with a budget of £3m, the part was the antithesis of his last role as osprey-wielding Bond villain Renard in the £73m blockbuster The World is Not Enough.
The effort to fasten the procedures of pervasive surveillance on human society is the antithesis of liberty.
It argues that this amounts to "the antithesis of democracy" and concludes: "The flaws in Labour's devolution strategy, which was meant to slay the dragon of independence not give it new life, have been exposed for all to see.
Robert Carlyle is not a method actor 'I would cringe to be called that' but he does know how to immerse himself so completely in a role that the character's emotions and reactions become the very antithesis of public transport: ie, they come when they are needed, not too late, or all at once.
What I have to admit afterwards is that sensation-seeking is the very antithesis of meditation.
Activism is the antithesis of what it means to be conservative.
"When the first album came out it was and still is the antithesis of pop stars off television shows".
