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The chemistry of opposition — two forces insisting only one can be right.
means Active, mutual hostility or opposition between people, groups, or forces that are working against each other.
from From French antagonisme, drawn from Greek antagonisma/antagonizesthai — ant- ('against') plus agonizesthai ('to struggle or compete'), itself rooted in agon, the word for a contest or struggle (the same root behind 'agony'). The Greeks pictured it literally: two competitors locked in a public contest, straining against one another — the image still buried inside the word's sense of friction and resistance.
- origin
- Greek antagonistes, rival actor competing for the lead
- biology use
- muscles pulling opposite ways so joints can move
- pharmacology use
- a drug blocking another drug's effect
- irony
- requires more attention than indifference ever does