contronymous

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English

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Etymology

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From contronym +‎ -ous.

Adjective

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contronymous (comparative more contronymous, superlative most contronymous)

  1. Of or being a contronym.
    • 2008 May 6, Burcu I[lkay] Karaman, “On Contronymy”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 21, number 2, Oxford, Oxon: Oxford University Press, published 2008 June, →DOI, →ISSN, page 182:
      Clearly, not all polysemous lexemes are contronymous, although their senses may be mutually incompatible.
    • 2013 May, David-Antoine Williams, “Poetic Antagonyms”, in The Comparatist, volume 37, Chapel Hill, N.C.: University of North Carolina Press, →DOI, →ISSN, page 184:
      While [Chris] Ellis proposes it as a general term, my sense of antagonym describes a subset of the larger class of contronymous or auto-antonymic words, however that might be defined.
    • 2017, Yousuf B[sby] AlBader, “Polysemy and Semantic Change in the Arabic Language and Dialects”, in Zeitschrift für Arabische Linguistik, number 66, Wiesbaden, Hesse: Harrassowitz Verlag, →DOI, →ISSN, page 89:
      ḤANNA et al. (1997: 7) [ḤANNA, S. – ḤUSĀM AD-DĪN, K. – GREIS, N. (1997): Dictionary of Modern Linguistics. Beirut: Librairie du Liban Publishers.] quote some examples of ʾaḍdād from the Qurʾān such as the ‘contronymous’ verb ištarā meaning ‘buy; sell’.
    • 2020 fall, Jules O’Dwyer, “Coming and Going: Nolot, Barthes, and the Porn Theater”, in Discourse, volume 42, number 3, Detroit, Mich.: Wayne State University Press, →DOI, →ISSN, pages 272 and 280:
      Largely consigned to the hors champ, the skin flick that is being projected seems to function merely as a pretext for cruising. Such a configuration indeed recalls the writing of Guy Hocquenghem, who similarly conceives of the screen as a “protection-prétexte” that, to adapt a Cavellian pun, screens the secrets of the filmgoing public.49 [] 49. [] I am also referring here to the contronymous “screen” as it is memorably evoked by Stanley Cavell in The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979), 24.