Contronyms
...or antagonyms: words that are their own antonyms, such as "cleave."
And, of course, there's a list of these lexical and semantic oddities.
And, of course, there's a list of these lexical and semantic oddities.
forsaking meaning for the search for means
"My father's a proctologist, my mother's an abstract artist. That's how I view the world."
—Sandra Bernhard
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Ron: thanks for this. I'd stumbled upon it once before; I've bookmarked it now.
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