Meaning

(grammar) Of a word, not describing itself..

Definitions by Sense

1. (grammar) Of a word, not describing itself.
2. (philosophy) Not true of itself.
3. (biology, of biomolecules, tissues, or body parts) Not of shared ancestral origin.
4. Supporting or attracted to otherness.
5. Having or supporting multiple interpretations.

Example Sentences

The words ultrashort and onomatopoeia are heterological: ultrashort might be called short but is not an ultrashort word, and onomatopoeia is not an onomatopoeic word.

A paradox arises when we ask, "Is the word 'heterological' heterological." If it is, it is not. If it is not, it is.

A further instance of the uncertainty of Prof. Bergmann's views on the subject of negation, is the distinction (considered by him as at least supposable) between " nicht-richtig " and "unrichtig" (§21,5.). This is done, of course, in order to put a " heterological " meaning into his Axiom of Excluded Middle,

It is the dream of a purely heterological thought at its source. A pure thought of pure difference.

But a process philosophy, in order to support a purely heterological thought, has to be capable of doing without subjects steering the process or being steered by it, without substantive names designating 'blocks' in motion, and without points of origin or destination invigilating over a predictable trajectory.

The normally situated non-transplanted gonads have the best chance of being able to absorb these substances, for which reason heterological (perhaps also homological) gonads, transplanted on normal organisms, can not get enough of these substances and therefore perish.

Growth indices from density and extension of the zones of emigration in explants of rat bone-marrow on addition of various heterological tissue as against the controls.

That is why it could only have a multitude of names, could only be expressed by the lexical extravagance to which it inevitably leads heterological practice and, as such, does not escape the substitutive discourse. Eroticism is just one of the names of heterological impulse at work — Incomplete through the metonymic effect of the copula — throughout The Caesarean Incomplete.

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Use heterological when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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