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- noun semantics The
semantic relation betweenantonyms ; the quality of beingantonymous .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express opposite meanings
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Atlantic Blog identifies the antonymy for the typically academic Heidegger, the "ordinary business manager" Victor Kugler.
Archive 2008-11-01 enowning 2008
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Atlantic Blog identifies the antonymy for the typically academic Heidegger, the "ordinary business manager" Victor Kugler.
enowning enowning 2008
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It brings together a variety of linguistic studies on the contextualised construction of synonymy and antonymy in discourse.
AvaxHome 2010
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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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