obverse

adj

1. (not-comparable)Turned or facing toward the observer.

   “The obverse side of the gravestone has the inscription.”

2. (not-comparable)Corresponding; complementary.

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

3. (not-comparable)Having the base, or end next to the attachment, narrower than the top.

   “an obverse leaf”

noun

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. 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."”