Definition of "heterological" []

• Of an adjective, not describing itself. (adjective)

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• "Grelling-Nelson paradox: Is the word "heterological", meaning "not applicable to itself," a heterological word?"
• "The sources were abundant ” letters, court records, pamphlets, memoirs ” and since Certeau's original French edition was part of a series of primary documents, he could prepare a book with different voices and thereby capture a "heterological" perspective: his own from the present, and those from the past, "each of [the] halves say [ing] what is missing from the other.""
• "Both contradictions can be presented as sequences of equivalences, and both sequences share the same structure, as seen below (where "het" abbreviates "heterological"):"