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Re: teapeebubbles post# 781

Wednesday, 05/02/2007 11:42:37 PM

Wednesday, May 02, 2007 11:42:37 PM

Post# of 995
the worthless word for the day is: enantiodromia

the changing of something into its opposite

here's an article proposing that words which
have developed diametrically opposed meanings
be referred to as enantiodromic [this interesting
article seems to be no longer available online,
probably due to the publication of Julain Burnside's
Wordwatching]

I have long sought a word to describe this
phenomenon; unfortunately this one doesn't cover
the special case where two different words with
opposite meanings have come to have the same
spelling -- cleave is an example of this.

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