• cholesterol@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    The word ‘monosyllabic’ isn’t monosyllabic.

    The word ‘alphabetic’ isn’t alphabetic.

    The word ‘palindrome’ isn’t a palindrome.

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      7 months ago

      Those are all heterological words, just like “phonetic”.

      Autological (or homological) would be words like “pentasyllabic”, “unhyphenated” and “writable.”.

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        My favorite is ‘Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia’, which is the word for the condition of being phobic of long words. Feels like the doctor who named that one was a bit of a dick XD