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A situation where one word has opposite meanings called enantiosemy



enantiosemy - a term to describe the situation where one word has two opposite meanings. For example, in the phrase "listen to a lecture," the verb "listen" can be understood as "accept" and "distracted and did not hear." There is interlingual enantiosemy, which often manifests itself in the Slavic languages. Polish uroda means "beauty», woń - «odor, flavor», zapominać - «forget"; translated from the Czech čerstvý means "fresh», potraviny - «products», ovoce - «fruit», pozor! - "Attention!», Úžasný - «delightful»; Serbian "hazard" is translated as "value" and "diarrhea" - "Pride».

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