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submitted 10 months ago by Stamets to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 100 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Not trans exclusive, just a lot of trans people here (including me)

[–] [email protected] 26 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Huh, I didn't realize exclusive is an auto-antonym

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

An antaunym.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago

This phenomenon is called enantiosemy, enantionymy (enantio- means "opposite"), antilogy or autantonymy.

Apparently it has more names than a great old one...