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Definition of "antonymy" []

  • The semantic relation between antonyms; the quality of being antonymous. (noun)

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Use "antonymy" in a sentence
  • "Atlantic Blog identifies the antonymy for the typically academic Heidegger, the "ordinary business manager" Victor Kugler."
  • "It brings together a variety of linguistic studies on the contextualised construction of synonymy and antonymy in discourse."
  • "The lexical structure of the domain is flat there are no hyponyms or hypernyms among ideophones (Watson 2001) there is only synonymy and antonymy"
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semantic relation