Near-synonym: enantiosemy
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Contronymy
//kənˈtɹɑn.ə.mi//
Synonyms for "contronymy" (4 found)
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Noun(2 words)
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4 translations across 2 languages.
French
1 entries- énantiosémie noun (the quality of being a contranym or including contranyms)
Hungarian
3 entries- antagonímia noun (the quality of being a contranym or including contranyms)
- enantioszémia noun (the quality of being a contranym or including contranyms)
- kontronímia noun (the quality of being a contranym or including contranyms)
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Contronymy, a phenomenon which has received much attention in recent years, has often been described as sense opposition at the micro-level.
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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.'
Source: wiktionary
Kronasser (1952) and Meid (1979) argue that language change results in the occurrence of contronymy in natural language.
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