"contradistinction" is correct and usable in written English.
It usually means a clear contrast between two objects or ideas. For example, "In contradistinction to her brother, she enjoys reading books rather than playing video games."
But they do have diplomatic uses, and that was why Mr Ma reiterated in his speech that foreign guests will be welcome on board his station in contradistinction to the ISS's rather pointed ban on taikonauts though any visitors will first have to learn Chinese.
The researchers found that 53% of horse genes appear on their chromosomes in the same order as they do in humans in contradistinction to dogs, where the figure is 29%.
Of course, a lot of clever engineering is involved to make it work, but the low pressure of the pumps needed (in contradistinction to those employed in reverse osmosis) means the brine can be transported through plastic pipes rather than steel ones.
In particular, duck vaginas are often equipped with additional passages that have blind endings, and frequently corkscrew in a clockwise direction, in contradistinction to the anticlockwise thread of a drake's penis.Dr Brennan interprets these anatomical flourishes as anti-insemination mechanisms.
The persistent shame of Hindu nationalism has been its ambition to define Indianness in contradistinction to being a Muslim.
The one and the many form no static contradistinction; there is, rather, a polarity and a dialectic tension between them.
Among the three great monotheistic religions, Christianity has a place apart because of the trinitarian creed of this religion in its classic forms, in contradistinction to the unitarian creed of Judaism and Islam.
In China, Western boxing, as it was known in contradistinction to the Chinese martial art of chung-kuo chuan ("Chinese fist"), was introduced in the late 1920s.
Just as for the German Enlightenment philosopher Immanuel Kant, the empirical has merely relative validity and never an absolute, or apodictic, validity, so for Husserl too what is to be searched for is a scientific knowledge of essences in contradistinction to a scientific knowledge of facts.
In between these public and semipublic spheres and the house within was the space of the yard at the back, which in contradistinction to the street was private and individual (if less so, potentially, than the house itself).
Canons regular (communal religious persons living under vows), although ordained, lived like the orders under a rule, and the Augustinians (several orders following the Rule of St. Augustine) are styled Black Canons in contradistinction to the Premonstratensians, or White Canons, an order founded by St. Norbert in the 12th century.
