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enantiodromia is taken from another Greek word which means running in opposite ways; it is a process by which something becomes its opposite, and the subsequent interaction of the two: applied esp. to the adoption by an individual or by a community of a set of beliefs opposite to those held at an earlier stage.
at some point the word was applied to contranyms, as an enantiodromic word, in the case where the meaning started out at one end of a spectrum and evolved over time to the opposite end. why? because people insist that there be a word that they can apply to a concept.
-tsuwm
as to whether the wwftd master talks as he writes, I could tell you that it is so, but the truth is that when it comes to verbalizing he suffers from aphasia.
-joe friday
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