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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

contranymy en · NOUN

Pronunciation

  • /kənˈtɹɑn.ə.mi/ (General-American)
  • /kənˈtɹɒn.ə.mi/ (General-American)

Etymology

From contranym + -y; also, by surface analysis, contra- + -nymy.

Meanings

  1. (alt-of, alternative, uncountable) Alternative form of contronymy.
    alt of contronymy
    • In that light Noegel might want to consider Janus parallelism as an intersecting set with contranymy. 1996, The Journal of the Association of Graduates in Near Eastern Studies:
    • There are cross-linguistic examples of words that allegedly mean x and the opposite of x; this phenomenon would be a facet of polysemy and is commonly referred to as auto-antonymy or contranymy. 2015, Saskia Peels, “The Semantic Paradox”, in Hosios: A Semantic Study of Greek Piety: