enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Opposite - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opposite

    The term antonym (and the related antonymy) is commonly taken to be synonymous with opposite, but antonym also has other more restricted meanings. Graded (or gradable) antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite and which lie on a continuous spectrum (hot, cold).

  3. Boomerang effect (psychology) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boomerang_effect_(psychology)

    It is sometimes also referred to as "the theory of psychological reactance", stating that attempts to restrict a person's freedom often produce an "anticonformity boomerang effect". [1] In other words, the boomerang effect is a situation where people tend to pick the opposite of what something or someone is saying or doing because of how it is ...

  4. Converse (semantics) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Converse_(semantics)

    In linguistics, converses or relational antonyms are pairs of words that refer to a relationship from opposite points of view, such as parent/child or borrow/lend. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The relationship between such words is called a converse relation . [ 2 ]

  5. Contronym - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contronym

    Hindi: कल and Urdu: کل (kal) may mean either "yesterday" or "tomorrow" (disambiguated by the verb in the sentence).; Icelandic: fram eftir can mean "toward the sea" or "away from the sea" depending on dialect.

  6. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesaurus

    Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...

  7. Restriction (mathematics) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restriction_(mathematics)

    Let : be a function from a set to a set . If a set is a subset of , then the restriction of to is the function [1] |: given by | = for . Informally, the restriction of to is the same function as , but is only defined on .

  8. Hypernymy and hyponymy - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypernymy_and_hyponymy

    Taxonymy (not to be confused with, though related to, taxonomy) is a sub-variety of hyponymy.Within the structure of a taxonomic lexical hierarchy, two types of hyponymic relation may be distinguished: the first—exemplified in "An X is a Y"—corresponds to so-called "simple" hyponymy; the second—that which is exemplified in "An X is a kind/type of Y"—is more discriminating, and ...

  9. Fideism - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fideism

    Fideism (/ ˈ f iː d eɪ. ɪ z əm, ˈ f aɪ d iː-/ FEE-day-iz-əm, FAY-dee-) is a standpoint or an epistemological theory which maintains that faith is independent of reason, or that reason and faith are hostile to each other and faith is superior at arriving at particular truths (see natural theology).