Thanks, tsuwm...now I can add hetero-- to my --nym list!

And, realizing in retrospect that this is probably a big YART to the Long-Time Legends of the Board (sorry, I was too
hot. tired, and lazy to do a search that night), I thought, perhaps, we could turn this into a New --Nym thread to list
new, strange, and interesting Wordonyms.
For instance, so far on this thread I've added capitonym and heteronym to my own --nymlist.
Precluding the common and obvious such as synonym, homonym, antonym, tsuwmnym, Jackienym, etc. ,
and making allowance for --nym derivatives such as homograph, how many strange Wordonyms are out there?

capitonym, heteronym......and they're off!

as per Jackie's and wow's request I'm starting a new thread for this at the fun place!
(Jackie, you can zip your follow-up over here if you want...all others, see "Does Does: is there a --nym for it?" (there! I used quotes again and I'm damned proud of it!) over on Q & A.

Thank you, Sweetie.

Now: when I praise, thank, oh heck worship the person who
has allowed us to have all this fun, I am using an Anu-nym.

Jacque-nym

Hyponymy is the relation that holds, for instance, between scarlet and red, or between tulip and flower, in English; i.e., scarlet is a hyponym of, is included in, red.

and here's one we should know: a metonym is a word used in a transferred sense.

then there is paranym, a near-synonym. which itself became a metonym when a newspaper columnist began collecting what *he called ‘paranyms’ — words whose meaning is generally the opposite of that intended by the speaker, such as ‘provisional’ or ‘liberation’ or ‘rationalise’; the writer Brian Aldiss thereupon contributed an example he had found in the New Testament: ‘“ever~lasting life”; in other words “death”’.

and here's one we should know: a metonym is a word used in a transferred sense.
Oh, that is bad.

: a metonym is a word used in a transferred sense.

I would have thought it was a metronome without an e ... virtually counting the beat 1-2-3-4 ...

tsuwm adds scarlet is a hyponym of, is included in, red

So is red a hypernym of scarlet?

Marianna asks So is red a hypernym of scarlet?


If not, it should be.

I like retronyms, specifiying words to distinguish the general word from a more common specific one. I'm not explaining it very well, but the examples that leap to mind are "black-and-white television" (as opposed to "color"), "acoustic guitar" (as opposed to "electric"), and "snail mail" (as opposed to "e"). Crossing threads, perhaps we need to start using a retronym for "built architecture" or "bricks-and-mortar architecture" to distinguish it from the new-fangled computer kind (at least buildings won't be "architected" any time soon -- or at least I hope not!).

buildings won't be "architected" any time soon

But perhaps cities will be.

heteronym

It has occurred to me, in retrospect, that in reply to my original post about does & does where tsuwm
offered heteronym as a contrast to homonym, there could be some chicanery afoot.
Homo and Hetero ...hmmm...is there a chance, tsuwm, that you were ever-so-succinctly putting me on?

Homo and Hetero

The opposite of hetero is ortho

The opposite of hetero is ortho.

Sure, Faldage! But not in the sexual "tense"!

So is red a hypernym of scarlet?

If not, it should be.

Well, it turns out it's not needed. Red would be a superordinate of scarlet. Apparently, it's superordinates and hyponyms.

"The opposite of hetero is ortho"

And I in my ignorance would have said the opposite of "hetero " was "iso", and the opposite of "ortho" was "laevo"
At least sometimes.

And I in my ignorance would have said the opposite of "hetero " was "iso",

Ah, the lightness of levity and the graveness of gravity...

So the opposite of heterosexual is isosexual?

And the opposite of orthodox is lævodox?

Isosexual just didn't get invented soon enough. And laevodoxy was Communism.

laevodoxy was Communism*

Don't tell that to the early Christians.

*Ænigma proclaims that Lafayette was communist!