contranymy

/kənˈtɹɑn.ə.mi/

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

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"In that light Noegel might want to consider Janus parallelism as an intersecting set with contranymy."
"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."

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

contronymy

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How do you pronounce contranymy?

The recorded pronunciation is /kənˈtɹɑn.ə.mi/.

What does contranymy mean?

Alternative form of contronymy.

Where does contranymy come from?

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

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