What is it called when you define a word with the word?

A word is autological or homological if it describes itself. The common term for this is a backronym, a back-formation acronym. Also known as recursive acronym/ metacronym/ recursive initialism, this is a fun way to coin names for new programming languages and such.

Do all words have definitions?

Ray Jackendoff, a linguist at Tufts University, argued in his recent Foundations of Knowledge, that words do in fact have definitions. However, those definitions themselves are not made up of words composed into sentences.

What is it called when you say something but it means something else?

Irony is “the use of words to convey a meaning that is the opposite of its literal meaning.” Inside jokes told subtly, so that outsiders don’t even know they are told, creates irony. Likewise, if I say something to you intending you to understand it one way, even though I mean it another way, I am speaking ironically.

What is a word called that describes itself?

A word is autological or homological if it describes itself. Since adjectives are words that are designed to describe things, including words, most autological words are adjectives.

What is it called when a word is its own definition?

An autological word is a word that is what it describes — it fits its own definition. If heterological is autological, it would be what it describes, but by the very definition of heterological, it can’t be what it describes, so it would be both autological and heterological.

Do words have definitions?

All words have definitions. Words like green and gay, left and right, up and down, good and evil, change and choice, and even male and female, all have objective meanings. As thinking human beings, we do know the definition of these words and we also, intuitively, know something else.

When a person says one thing but means something entirely different or opposite?

irony
irony: a contrast or discrepancy between appearance and reality, or between what is expected and what actually happens. In verbal irony a person says one things and means another.

What are some words that mean obvious?

Words Related to obvious. arresting, clear, distinct, dramatic, emphatic, evident, eye-catching, marked, notable, noticeable, outstanding, plain, prominent, remarkable, salient, showy, splashy. absolute, arrant, downright, out-and-out, outright, sheer, stark, utter.

What is the meaning of the word evident?

evident, manifest, patent, distinct, obvious, apparent, plain, clear mean readily perceived or apprehended. evident implies presence of visible signs that lead one to a definite conclusion. an evident fondness for sweets manifest implies an external display so evident that little or no inference is required.

What is the difference between obvious and distinct?

While in some cases nearly identical to obvious, distinct implies such sharpness of outline or definition that no unusual effort to see or hear or comprehend is required. When is it sensible to use evident instead of obvious?

What is the role of word meaning in contemporary philosophy?

Word meaning has played a somewhat marginal role in early contemporary philosophy of language, which was primarily concerned with the structural features of sentence meaning and showed less interest in the nature of the word-level input to compositional processes.

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