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Definitions of heterological in various dictionaries:
adj - not corresponding in structure or evolutionary origin
HETEROLOGICAL - An autological word (also called homological word or autonym) is a word that expresses a property that it also possesses (e.g. the word "short" is sh...
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Of an adjective, not describing itself. |
not corresponding in structure or evolutionary origin |
Heterological description |
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An autological word (also called homological word or autonym) is a word that expresses a property that it also possesses (e.g. the word "short" is short, "noun" is a noun, "English" is English, "pentasyllabic" has five syllables, "word" is a word). The opposite is a heterological word, one that does not apply to itself (e.g. "long" is not long, "monosyllabic" has five syllables). * Unlike more general concepts of autology and self-reference, this particular distinction and opposition of "autological" and "heterological words" is uncommon in linguistics for describing linguistic phenomena or classes of words, but is current in logic and philosophy where it was introduced by Kurt Grelling and Leonard Nelson for describing a semantic paradox, later known as Grelling's paradox or the GrellingNelson paradox.One source of autological words is ostensive definition: the reference to a class of words by an example of the member of the class, as it were by synecdoche: such as mondegreen, oxymoron |