vice versa

alternative vice-versa · alternative pronunciation spelling vicey versey · alternative abbreviation v.v. · alternative vice versâ · alternative vice-versâ

1. not comparablegenerally after and or orThe same but with the two items mentioned reversed.

   Since there are two contestants left in the race, either Bob will come first place and Alice second place, or vice versa.

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   The most loved scholar of the university wrote a memorable diary to his students, and vice versa, the students wrote to him.

   I’m going to give her a diamond necklace for her birthday, and vice versa, she’s going to get me a Premium Pass for FIFA 24 for mine.

   Stenfeldt’s research on Nils Flyg’s and Sven Olov Lindholm’s transition from far-left to the far-right and vice versa during the interwar years is a great example of how Freeden’s morphology of ideologies can be used to not only study ideologies of the far-right, but also to study how ideologies relate to each other and to conduct comparisons between them.

   2021, Hugo Engholm, “The lack of looks: A study on the Incel ideology of Incelism during the 2010s–2020s and its relation to historical and contemporary ideologies particularly within far right milieus”, in University of Uppsala, archived from the original on 24 Aug 2022, page 29

   Synonyms: vicey versey, conversely, the other way round, inversely, reverse, wrong side out