These Extremely Cool Words Mean the Opposite of Themselves
All about the delightful phenomenon of “Janus Words”
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4 min readSep 20, 2022
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They’re called contronyms, antagonyms, auto-antonyms (shudder), and enantiodromes (fun!), but by far the nicest thing they’re called is “Janus Words,” after the (literally) two-faced Roman god Janus, who presided over doorways, gates, and transitions, looking backwards and…