Results suggest a possible increase in concept novelty when using opposite terms.
The tendency these days is to see them in almost opposite terms.
For all problems, participants were observed to select opposite terms despite their less apparent connection to the problem, even though similar, more obvious terms were present.
I think about the world in exactly the opposite terms — that everything lacks substance, that everything is ephemeral and mutating and dubious.
Indeed, the Bush administration was thinking in exactly the opposite terms: that the world was entering a golden age of American global power.
The hyperbolic talk of a post-racial society suggested that white voters, or at least a highly visible segment of them, tended to see the election in precisely the opposite terms.
But here too the central argument is the inseparable intersubsumption of the two opposite terms: sentience is always insentience-sentience, insentience is always sentience-insentience.
No matter what her intentions are, no matter how well the choreography of her visit will be, this visit seems untimely, because of the fact that it will be perceived in opposite terms by her hosts and the opponents of it.
Fluency theory frames the relevance of lightness contrast to pair preference in terms of high-contrast figure-ground images being aesthetically pleasing to perceive, but one could also frame the same phenomenon in the opposite terms: Perhaps low-contrast figure-ground images are aesthetically displeasing.
The opposite evaluative term ('bad': sick, hell, poison, fail) was non-focal [8].
Newcomer Eric Wright is the opposite in terms of physicality.
