Contranymy

Origin

- + contra + -

Full definition of contranymy

Noun

• 1996, The Journal of the Association of Graduates in Near Eastern Studies, In that light Noegel might want to consider Janus parallelism as an intersecting set with contranymy.
• 2015, Saskia Peels, The Semantic Paradox, There are cross-linguistic examples of words that allegedly mean x and the opposite of x; this phenomenon would be a facet of polysemy and is commonly referred to as auto-antonymy or contranymy.