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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Contradistinction \Con`tra*dis*tinc"tion\, n.
     Distinction by contrast.
  
           That there are such things as sins of infirmity in
           contradistinction to those of presumption is not to be
           questioned.                              --South.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  contradistinction
       n : a distinction drawn on the basis of contrast; "sculpture in
           contradistinction to painting"

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