Associations to the word «Antonymy»

Wiktionary

ANTONYMY, noun. (semantics) The semantic relation between antonyms; the quality of being antonymous.

Dictionary definition

ANTONYMY, noun. The semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express opposite meanings.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne