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Symbolic objects > Semantic relations > Antonymy > Gradable antonymy

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1520Gradable antonymy  

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Scope note

  • Gradable or scalar antonymy describes pairs of words that are contrasted with respect to their degree of possession of a certain semantic property. Each term represents or stands for an end-point (or extreme) on a scale (e.g., of temperature, size, height, beauty, etc.); between those end-points there are other intermediate points.

Source

  • Saeed 2017
  • Ξυδόπουλος 2008

Contributor

  • Katsiadakis Helen (AA)

Creator

  • Karasimos Athanasios (AA)

Notation

  • 1520

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https://humanitiesthesaurus.academyofathens.gr/dyas-resource/Concept/1520

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