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the direction your gut points right before your brain catches up
means Something or someone positioned as far as possible from another in nature, direction, or position — the contrary or reverse of it.
from From Latin oppositus, the past participle of opponere, 'to set against' — ob- ('against') welded to ponere ('to place'). So an opposite is literally something placed against you, planted face-to-face across the divide. It traveled through Old French into English in the 14th century, keeping that sense of two things squared off and staring each other down.
- language quirk
- some words are their own opposites, called contronyms
- physics rule
- every action has an equal opposite reaction
- magnet truth
- opposite poles attract, identical ones repel
- reverse psychology
- toddlers weaponize doing the exact opposite daily
- antipodes
- dig straight down and arrive at earth's opposite point
north and south poles — earth's two antipodal points, 180° apart on opposite ends of the axis
matter and antimatter — particles with opposite electrical charge; when they meet they annihilate, releasing energy
yin and yang — complementary opposite forces in chinese philosophy, represented in the taijitu symbol