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English
Pronunciation
Noun
antonymy (countable and uncountable, plural antonymies)
- (semantics) The semantic relation between antonyms; the quality of being antonymous.
- Antonym: synonymy
- Hypernym: nonsynonymy
- Coordinate terms: antiphrasis; cohyponymy, coordination, coordinateness; parasynonymy, plesionymy; comeronymy; metonymy; synechdoche
Translations
semantic relation between antonyms