Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. The presence of dueling polarities within one entity, thought of as typical for the Scottish psyche and literature.
Etymologies
- anti- + syzygy, coined by G. Gregory Smith in Scottish Literature: Character and Influence (1919). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“As per antisyzygy here, I tried looking for songs with punctuation in the title though I wasn't strict on the bit about sorting songs by song-length.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘antisyzygy’.
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Portmanteau-ism
portmanteau, apophenia, apoplexy, antisyzygy, canard, augur, interstice, sang-froid, agent provocateur, aposiopesis, folderol, twaddle and 5 more...
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known words
words wot i already knew
antisyzygy, calenture, shill, saudade, sehnsucht, squonk, steganographic, anomie, wiggy, grok, hermeneutics, agrise and 206 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3251 more...
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Words of Greatness
unswerving, hugger-mugger, farrago, chiaroscuro, cattywampus, rigmarole, apophenia, insouciance, desultory, éminence grise, imbroglio, portmanteau and 17 more...
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jey's Words
clerestory, outwith, sublunary, machair, luskentyre, antisyzygy, narthex, halyard, anegada, hebrides, schiehallion, quiraing and 53 more...
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garyth123 syzygy is a kind of unity, especially through coordination or alignment according to the Wikipedia. So antisyzygy is being out of alignment. This is the sense in which I most usually use it in connection with myself. Hugh MacDairmid referred to the Caledonian antisyzygy to refer eg to the seemingly morally contradictory quality of the works of Robert Louis Stevenson and James Hogg (Wikipedia again).
Nov 30, 2008