obverse

1. not comparableTurned or facing toward the observer.

   The obverse side of the gravestone has the inscription.

   Synonyms: facing, presenting

2. not comparableCorresponding; complementary.

   When you speak clearly, people understand you. If you don't mumble, the obverse effect is observed.

   Synonyms: analogous, like, parallel, reciprocal

3. not comparablebiologyHaving the base, or end next to the attachment, narrower than the top.

   an obverse leaf

plural obverses

1. The heads side of a coin, or the side of a medal or badge that has the principal design.

   The medal had a cross on the obverse and had a name inscribed on the reverse.

   Antonyms: reverse

2. human sciencesA proposition obtained by obversion.

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   White racism says that all black people are the same, with no right to or understanding of these words. Too much of what I have seen of black society simply assumes the obverse, that black people should have no interest in these words, that these words are irrelevant to or destructive of "black culture."

   1986, Reginald Shepherd, “On Not Being White”, in Joseph Beam, editor, In The Life: A Black Gay Anthology, page 48