Editing Contronym (section)

{{short description|Word that has two opposing meanings}}
{{redirect|Enantiodrome|the Jungian principle of equilibrium|Enantiodromia}}
A '''contronym''' or '''contranym''' is a word with two [[Opposite (semantics)|opposite]] [[word sense|meanings]]. For example, the word ''[[wikt:original|original]]'' can mean "authentic, traditional", or "novel, never done before". This feature is also called '''enantiosemy''',<ref>{{cite book |pages=11,77 |title=[[Language Contact and Lexical Enrichment in Israeli Hebrew]] |first=Ghil'ad |last=Zuckermann |author-link=Ghil'ad Zuckermann |publisher=[[Palgrave Macmillan]] |year=2003}}, where "enantiosemy" is mentioned along with "auto-opposite",</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://blog.oup.com/2013/09/simpleton-capsize-kibosh-hobo-bragi-sanction-coleslaw/|title=Etymology gleanings for September 2013|last=Liberman|first=Anatoly|date=25 September 2013|work=Oxford Etymologist|publisher=Oxford University Press|quote=The coexistence of two opposite meanings in a word is called enantiosemy, and the examples are rather numerous.|access-date=25 September 2013}}</ref> '''enantionymy''' (''[[wikt:enantio-#Prefix|enantio-]]'' means "opposite"), '''antilogy''' or '''autoantonymy'''. An enantiosemic term is by definition [[polysemy|polysemic]].