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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
(obsolete) A hypothetical Earth on the opposite side of the Sun..
It is curious at least, that his Philosophy obliged Pythagoras, to make the Solar System #61;10, tho' his imperfect Astrognosy reduced him to the shift of including the moon, and imagining an Antiχθων ["anti-earth, anti-world"] and taking the whole as a completory Unit—Sun, Mer[cury,] Ven[us,] Earth, Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Antichthon #61;9#43; Solar Syst[em] #61;1#61;10
Use antichthon when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Antichthon means (obsolete) A hypothetical Earth on the opposite side of the Sun..
Common synonyms include counter-earth.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
It is curious at least, that his Philosophy obliged Pythagoras, to make the Solar System #61;10, tho' his imperfect Astrognosy reduced him to the shift of including the moon, and imagining an Antiχθων ["anti-earth, anti-world"] and taking the whole as a completory Unit—Sun, Mer[cury,] Ven[us,] Earth, Moon, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Antichthon #61;9#43; Solar Syst[em] #61;1#61;10
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