Antitropy

/ænˈtɪtrəpi/ noun

The quality or state of being oriented or directed in an opposite manner; opposition in direction or orientation.

From anti- (opposite) + -tropy (from Greek tropos, turn). This abstract noun emerged from botanical and biological terminology to name the general principle of opposite orientation.

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