Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. psychiatry The principle whereby the superabundance of one force inevitably produces its opposite, as with physical equilibrium.
Examples
“It was a stunning enantiodromia the likes of which I couldn't have fantasized in my most wine-fueled delusions.”
The Huffington Post: Rex Pickett: The Sideways Publishing Saga -- Part III: Whiplash; Dismay!
“A discussion with him might cover astrophysics and ant colonies, meteorology and baseball, the science of poker playing, and "enantiodromia," or the restoration of balance.”
The Wall Street Journal: The Long Climb and Steep Descent of Legg Mason's Top Stock Picker
“Marie-Louise von Franz argues that alchemy as Jung deals with it enacts the inevitable enantiodromia that sets in as a result of the patriarchal rigidity of the dogma of the Trinity, which excluded the feminine because of its alliance with”
“(enantiodromia) to the patriarchal tyranny of the Roman Church in which vicarious atonement as power rather than love is replaced by active "Soul-making" in which the psyche assumes full responsibility for its own salvation.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘enantiodromia’.
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phrontistery - e
from phrontistery.info
eagre, earing, earwig, easement, eau-de-nil, ebberman, ebeneous, ?boulement, ebriection, ?brillade, ebrious, ebullioscope and 616 more...
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jung
Epimethean, enantiodromia, pettifogger, captiousness, sophistry, abstruse, importunate, philautic, misautic, mneme, psychoasthenia
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artoparts's Words
illation, finite, edify, abide, abrade, vouch, amiss, vociferate, perusing, techantiquery, rigamarole, holon and 615 more...
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Lessons of Wordie / Wordnik
Words and concepts I learned on Wordie, or happened upon as I roamed through dictionaries and websites seeking ammunition.
usquebaugh, baugh, plunderbunny, plinthiform, hendiatris, buckjumper, peripetia, trenchmore, antifogmatic, felon, whitlow, paronychia and 152 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3255 more...
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Metaflip
Blasted binaries, background pattern inversions, and subtlety awareness.
apophenia, fissiparous, doppelganger, intertextuality, presque vu, unsung, dittology, enantiodromia, pareidolia, silhouette, rorschach, galanty and 151 more...
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new acquisitions
found in the wild (i.e., not on Wordie!)
samara, indehiscent, paschal, rogation, wen, rete, diriment, epicene, duramen, euhemerism, objurgate, canaille and 429 more...
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gleaned words
found words, that haven't found their proper place yet.
juggernaut, panopticon, superfluous, verfremdung, aleatory, googlewhack, palimpsest, petrosomatoglyph, epibiont, solipsism, zugzwang, ubiquitous and 500 more...
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kanenas's list
General
adnate, aleatory, anastrophe, anosmia, antiscii, aphesis, apophasis, apocope, appellative, autologous, autotrophic, botryoid and 26 more...
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ruzuzu's taxonomy
limit cycle, gyre, oscillation, meander, general adaptatio..., barchan dune, soliton, guilloche, obverse, involute, damaskeening, superposition and 62 more...
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Miscellany, pt. e
etiolate, eristic, enfeeblement, exult, ensphere, ergosphere, enormance, ecphore, exsiccate, estropiated, epexegesis, engastrimyth and 9 more...
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Selected Beloved Words
DOINK!
logodaedaly, logogriph, enantiodromia, liminal, contrariety, disambiguation, animadversion, cacotopia, tergiversate
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word
Gathered word
Tweets
Looking for tweets for enantiodromia.
MiketheViking90 adoption of beliefs opposite to those previously held Mar 21, 2011
johanna fata-morgana Jul 29, 2009
johanna greek roots....it is the
description of the highest point of the arc
of a pendulim's swing, and the
slight pause there. before it swings back to the opposite direction... great metaphor for the human condition.
Jul 29, 2009
vanishedone A Jungian concept, apparently. (I had a nice citation, but it turned out to misspell the word in question.) Oct 23, 2008
mollusque The urge to take the road less travelled? Sep 1, 2008
she Oho! So do I. Sep 1, 2008
whichbe The changing of something into its opposite. I love this concept very much. May 12, 2008