contradistinction

IPA: kˈɑntrædɪstˈɪŋkʃʌn

Distinction by contrast; the provision of one example against which another example may be defined.
The quality of being contradistinctive.

Examples of "contradistinction" in Sentences

Sistani, in contradistinction, was happy as pigs in the popcorn.
And, nonetheless, we regularly see him applauded in contradistinction to President Obama.
Your definition of Christian, in contradistinction to my second one, goes a long way toward proving what Kamal was getting at.
That goes a long way toward explaining why results for “socialism” and “capitalism” are nearly statistically independent, I had the impression they were being asked in contradistinction to each other.
“Sadly and directly in contradistinction to assimilation theory, the fourth generation differs the most from whites, with a college completion rate of only 6 percent [compared to 35 percent for whites of that era].”
From dime novels and penny dreadfuls through to the pulp boom of the early 20th century which gave us the modern commercial genres of Western, Crime, Romance, Science Fiction and so on, that process continues, with all these genres being defined as “pulp fiction” which by now is intrinsically in contradistinction to “literary fiction”.