• Opposite (redirect from Antonyms)
    with Lyons (1968, 1977) defining antonym to mean gradable antonyms, and Crystal (2003) warning that antonymy and antonym should be regarded with care. Opposition...
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  • Unpaired word (redirect from Absent antonym)
    words usually have a prefix or suffix that would imply that there is an antonym, with the prefix or suffix being absent or opposite. If the prefix or suffix...
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  • auto-antonym, antagonym, enantiodrome, enantionym, Janus word (after the Roman god Janus, who is usually depicted with two faces), self-antonym, antilogy...
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  • specify the love or obsession with something more specific. It is somewhat antonymic to -phobia. Philias can be biological (e.g. rhizophilia, preference for...
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  • to place a conjunction like and between the two antonyms; such compounds (not necessarily of antonyms) are known as dvandvas (a term taken from Sanskrit...
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  • In linguistics, converses or relational antonyms are pairs of words that refer to a relationship from opposite points of view, such as parent/child or...
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  • Adharma is the Sanskrit antonym of dharma. It means "that which is not in accord with the dharma". Connotations include betrayal, discord, disharmony...
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  • hapaxanth and semelparous. The antonym is polycarpic, a plant that flowers and sets seeds many times during its lifetime; the antonym of semelparous is iteroparous...
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    Friedrich Salomon Krauss Other terms Synonyms Sexual perversion (1880s–1920) Sexual deviation (1952–1980; DSM and ICD) Associated terms Normophilia (antonym)...
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    sustains life; "virtue", righteousness or "religious and moral duties". The antonym of dharma is adharma. The concept of dharma was in use in the historical...
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    synonym. Antonyms are words with opposite or nearly opposite meanings. For example: hot ↔ cold, large ↔ small, thick ↔ thin, synonym ↔ antonym Hypernyms...
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  • (No requirement) Synonym Same Different Different Antonym Opposite Different Different Auto-antonym Opposite Same (No requirement) Synophone Different...
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    Antonym pairs independent dependent input output regressor regressand predictor predicted explanatory explained exogenous endogenous manipulated measured...
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    shedding of petals, after flowering; and to the shedding of ripe fruit. The antonym of deciduous in the botanical sense is evergreen. Generally, the term "deciduous"...
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  • of recalling Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky while he discusses the antonym of crime with Horiki, Yoshiko is sexually assaulted by a casual acquaintance...
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  • Gene Weingarten of The Washington Post coined the word inaptonym as an antonym for "aptonym". The word "euonym" (eu- + -onym), dated to late 1800, is...
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    An anode usually is an electrode of a polarized electrical device through which conventional current enters the device. This contrasts with a cathode,...
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    Mother figure Daughter figure Anaphora (rhetoric) Anaplodiplose Antonym Paronym Synonym Anadiplosis Chiasmus Epanalepsis...
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    traditionally comprising anything belonging to the Eastern world. It is the antonym of the term Occident, which refers to the Western world. In English, it...
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  • and means on this side of. The term cisgender was coined in 1994 as an antonym to transgender, and entered into dictionaries starting in 2015 as a result...
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    spouse of higher social status or sexual capital than themselves. The antonym "hypogamy" refers to the inverse: marrying a person of lower social class...
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  • (or presumed disability) when determining sentence for a conviction. The antonym of aggravation is mitigation. In canon law, "aggravation" was a form of...
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    although some philosophers claim that the two are compatible. A more extreme antonym of determinism is indeterminism, or the view that events are not deterministically...
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  • permission or a restriction, depending upon context, as the word is an auto-antonym. Examples of sanctions include: Sanctions (law), penalties imposed by courts...
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    society that is extremely bad or frightening. It is often treated as an antonym of utopia, a term that was coined by Thomas More and figures as the title...
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    include fault, sin, depravity, iniquity, wickedness, and corruption. The antonym of vice is virtue. The modern English term that best captures its original...
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  • appreciation of foreign people, manners, customs, or cultures. It is the antonym of xenophobia or xenophoby. The word is a modern coinage from the Greek...
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    meant "seeking or forming part of a cultural entity". It resembled its antonym hellenismos, a word signifying people's submission to Hellenistic cultural...
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    or the like, who constitutes an important evil agency in the plot". The antonym of a villain is a hero. The villain's structural purpose is to serve as...
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  • An antonym to "outer space"...
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