obverse
nounEtymology From Latin obversus, 1650s.
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.
2
Human sciences, Logic, Mathematics, Philosophy, Sciences A proposition obtained by obversion.
- 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: