enantiosemy

English

Etymology

From enantio-; sem- (from Ancient Greek σῆμα "token, sign"); -y, modelled after polysemy.

Pronunciation

Noun

enantiosemy (uncountable)

  1. (semantics) A type of polysemy in which a word or other seme can be read as two opposing senses.
    Near-synonyms: contronymy, contranymy, autoantonymy

Translations

Translations
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.