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Complete tangent, but in case someone else gets a chuckle out of it: the word "fabrication" means "creation"... but also serves as a synonym for "falsehood",
by chrisweekly 8y ago
Complete tangent, but in case someone else gets a chuckle out of it:
the word "fabrication" means "creation"... but also serves as a synonym for "falsehood", almost an antonym in some contexts. I'm not aware of many words in English that can mean both a thing and its opposite. "Cleave" means to bind together, or to completely separate...
Any language geeks out there know of others? Or what such words are called?
- rrmm 8y agoauto-antonyms.
- chrisweekly 8y agobingo! thanks :)
- smolder 8y agoMy feeling is that "lie" and "creation" go together. Similar to "he made that up". Something is a fabrication (in the lie sense) when it's created by the person saying it and not drawn from evidence or observation.