it's just an interesting phenomenon, to me. there's nothing 'official' about any of this, and talking about qualifiers seems counterproductive. I mentioned the lists out there, and we could start a long, and no doubt vituperative thread about whether each word 'qualifies.'

Faldo likes to differentiate between a word which has developed opposite senses and two words that are homonyms (or homophones?) with opposite meanings. this is why I've (re)coined the word enantiodrome, which carries with it the characteristic of something which has become its own opposite over time.

cleave, then, are not an enantiodrome.

an interesting(?) exercise for the student might be to find an other such pair.

-joe (strange attractors) friday