{
  "id": "against.opposition",
  "term": "against",
  "sense": "opposition",
  "pos": "adjective",
  "status": "review",
  "level": 15,
  "arena": "preposition",
  "domain": "spatial/relational",
  "style": null,
  "definition": "a thing that is different from another and does not go toward it",
  "folk_gloss": null,
  "emergence": {
    "components": [
      "difference.relation",
      "direction.spatial",
      "go.movement"
    ],
    "interaction": "difference and lack of movement toward each other combine to create opposition",
    "novel_properties": [
      "opposition",
      "resistance"
    ]
  },
  "examples": [
    {
      "text": "The Berlin Wall stood from 1961 to 1989, physically and politically separating East and West Berlin.",
      "domain": "institutions"
    },
    {
      "text": "In 2020, hydrogen fuel cells opposed internal combustion engines in Toyota’s Mirai versus the Ford F-150.",
      "domain": "engineering"
    },
    {
      "text": "CRISPR-Cas9 gene editing in 2012 enabled precise DNA cuts, opposing natural mutation processes.",
      "domain": "biology"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "id": "difference.relation",
      "note": "is-a",
      "type": "is-a"
    },
    {
      "id": "like.similarity",
      "note": "contrasts-with",
      "type": "contrasts-with"
    }
  ],
  "used_by": [
    "keystone.system",
    "persistence.endurance",
    "regret.emotional"
  ],
  "forms": [
    "against"
  ],
  "closed": true,
  "provenance": {
    "author": "openrouter:openai/gpt-oss-120b",
    "date": "2026-07-29",
    "confidence": 0.6
  },
  "canonical": "https://emergencemachine.com/tools/lexicon/what-is-the-meaning-of-against.opposition"
}