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“But pharmakon, like altus, isn't really an auto-antonym; most remedies are poisons if given in the wrong fashion, and deep/high, as pf says, is just a matter of perspective.”
“I don't really think this fits into the auto-antonym category, since the only opposition between 'high' and 'deep' is the lexical one created by English vocabulary -- if you think about it, the real-world situation is the same.”
“This is an interesting choice because "special" is an auto-antonym that, like”
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#termsfromtoday
I'm always entertained by the terms @immerito tweets using the hashtag #termsfromtoday. As best I can tell, the tag emerged in mid 2011 after a brief flirtation with an alternate hashtag form. You'...
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word categories - not just -nyms
I seem to run into a lot of these words. This is probably because I hang out at places like wordie. :) It's funny that there is five other words that mean the same thing as contronym. It just goes ...
contronym, janus word, auto-antonym, autantonym, antagonym, self-antonym, portmanteau, blend, frankenword, nonce word, neologism, coinage and 5 more...
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