Meaning of contronymous | Babel Free

Definitions

Of or being a contronym.

Examples

“Clearly, not all polysemous lexemes are contronymous, although their senses may be mutually incompatible.”

“While [Chris] Ellis proposes it as a general term, my sense of antagonym describes a subset of the larger class of contronymous or auto-antonymic words, however that might be defined.”

“ḤANNA et al. (1997: 7) [ḤANNA, S. – ḤUSĀM AD-DĪN, K. – GREIS, N. (1997): Dictionary of Modern Linguistics. Beirut: Librairie du Liban Publishers.] quote some examples of ʾaḍdād from the Qurʾān such as the ‘contronymous’ verb ištarā meaning ‘buy; sell’.”

“Largely consigned to the hors champ, the skin flick that is being projected seems to function merely as a pretext for cruising. Such a configuration indeed recalls the writing of Guy Hocquenghem, who similarly conceives of the screen as a “protection-prétexte” that, to adapt a Cavellian pun, screens the secrets of the filmgoing public.⁴⁹ […] 49. […] I am also referring here to the contronymous “screen” as it is memorably evoked by Stanley Cavell in The World Viewed: Reflections on the Ontology of Film (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1979), 24.”

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