point-counterpoint
/ˌpɔɪntˈkaʊntəpɔɪnt/noun
The alternation of points (in an argument, etc.) in opposition or contrast to one another; a debate, argument, or match in which points for two opposing sides are made in succession.
Origin
1920s; earliest use found in Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), writer. From point + counterpoint. Probably originally chiefly after the title of Huxley's novel.
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- prosperous-looking
- prosperously
- prosperousness
- prosphora
- prospicience
- prospicient
- prosporangium
- pross
- prossie
- prossy
- prost
- prostacyclin
- prostaglandin
- Prost, Alain
- prostanoic acid
- prostanoid
- prostaphairesis
- prostatalgia
- prostate
- prostatectomy
- prostate gland
- prostate-specific antigen
- prostatic
- prostatic body