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   converse

   noun

   • 1. a situation, object, or statement that is the reverse of another or corresponds to it but with certain terms transposed: "if spirituality is properly political, the converse is also true: politics is properly spiritual"
   • ▪ a theorem whose hypothesis and conclusion are the conclusion and hypothesis of another.

   adjective

   • 1. having characteristics which are the reverse of something else already mentioned: "the only mode of change will be the slow process of growth and the converse process of decay"

   Word Origin late Middle English: from Latin conversus ‘turned about’, past participle of convertere (see convert).

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