contrast
/ˈkɑnt(ʃ)ɹæst/ noun A2- The degree of this difference. · The red and the orange don't have much contrast between them — I can hardly tell them apart.
- A control on a television, etc, that adjusts the amount of contrast in the images being displayed.
- A difference between two objects, people or concepts. · Israel is a country of many contrasts.
- Something that is opposite of or strikingly different from something else.
- Antithesis.
- Contrast medium
Plural contrasts
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What a contrast between him and his friend!
Bingley was endeared to Darcy by the easiness, openness, and ductility of his temper, though no disposition could offer a greater contrast to his own, and though with his own he never appeared dissatisfied.
What a contrast did it offer to his last address in Rosings Park, when he put his letter into her hand!
There is something tropical and exotic about her which forms a singular contrast to her cool and unemotional brother.
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