contranymy
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]contranymy (uncountable)
- Alternative form of contronymy
- 1996, The Journal of the Association of Graduates in Near Eastern Studies:
- In that light Noegel might want to consider Janus parallelism as an intersecting set with contranymy.
- 2015, Saskia Peels, “The Semantic Paradox”, in Hosios: A Semantic Study of Greek Piety:
- 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.