contronymy

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contronymy (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being a contranym or including contranyms.
    Synonyms: enantiosemy, enantionymy, antilogy, autantonymy
    • 2008, BI Karaman, “On contronymy”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 21, number 2:
      Contronymy, a phenomenon which has received much attention in recent years, has often been described as sense opposition at the micro-level.
    • 2011, Tony Thorne, The 100 Words That Make The English, →ISBN:
      Today the same word can mean 'wholly', 'to a considerable extent' ('Quite the little madam, aren't we?') or '(only) to some extent', 'partially' or 'somewhat' ('feeling quite tired'), though theoretical linguists explain this slightly differently: 'At the micro-level the lexical unit represents a case for contronymy of antonymy type if it can be subjected to gradation and if it comprises at least two senses which are contradictory within one aspect.'
    • 2013, Hye Seung Lee, “Semantics of COM”, in Selected Papers from the Seventeenth College-Wide Conference for Students in Languages, Linguistics, & Literature:
      Kronasser (1952) and Meid (1979) argue that language change results in the occurrence of contronymy in natural language.

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