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I'm looking for the word that describes a word that is both itself and its own opposite, like cleave.
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I really must yell YART on this one, as it has come up at least three (3) times before. do a local search for enantiodromia or enantiodromic. by the way, cleave is not the best example of this as you have two separate words with different derivations which have come to have the same spelling, just another pair of heteronyms.
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Lulu, welcome to the nuthouse. Don't take any notice of the fustian old pooh-bah's griping. You can't be expected to understand everything about the Board on your first foray! I suggest you look at http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/maxq/Jo's_Hints.htm to see how the Board works. What tsuwm was whinging about was the fact that this topic has been discussed before, in other threads. Ignore him unless he's talking about language and words, which he does know a thing or two about. Every so often one of the old-timers around here blows his/her stack for no reason other than he or she (a) lives in the central area of the US where it's just finished being winter and you can't see the sea every day, and (b) just got out of bed on the wrong side this morning ... Most of us are friendly and polite to newcomers, aren't we, folks? [c'mon, give us some support here -e]    !
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yes, captain kiwi, I can see the error of my ways now. I should have called juju by an entirely different name so that they could feel immediately like he/she are one of the family.
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i'm not worried at all that i won't prove my word nerd status in good time. thanks for the help. meanwhile i found this:
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cellis/antagonym.html
antagonym and auto-antonym were my favorites to describe the condition.
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. I should have called juju by an entirely different name so that they could feel immediately like he/she are one of the family.
[gratuitous post]I'm sorry, but that was one of the wittiest things i've ever seen here. i can't stop giggling. and that's aside from the clever references to the amn't thread....[/sychophancy]
(btw, why isn't sycophancy a word? i think it should be)
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coco, my favorite word for this is contranym (said Tom contrarily).
b97, who says sycophancy isn't a word??
1. The trade or occupation of an informer; calumnious accusation, tale-bearing. Now only in Gr. Hist.
2. Mean or servile flattery; the character of a mean or servile flatterer.
say, have you ever noticed how many great words there are in the sycophant family?
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b97, who says sycophancy isn't a word?? oh  ... no wonder it didn't atomicize properly; i spelled it incorrectly. in my defense, when it didn't come up, i typed in "sycophant" instead, which of course came up, but without showing 'sycophancy' as a variation. so, i just incorrectly atsuwmed that it wasn't a word. silly me.
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Welcome to you, juju. I am one of the sane ones--trust me.  I can see the error of my ways now. I should have called juju read: B96 by an entirely different name so that they could feel immediately like he/she are one of the family.Um, I think a more appropriate word might be Psychophancy... I imagine juju, whoever he or she are, would agree.
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Welcome to you, juju. I am one of the sane ones--trust me.
Don't do it, juju - Jackie's good people, but she aren't sane by a long way - she can't even pronounce Derby properly! [must-hide-from-the-Louisville-slugger e]
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