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Gander5739 • last Monday at 9:14 AM • 1 reply • view on HN

> [Japanese] also has words with opposite meanings

These are known as contronyms (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contronym).

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tdeck • last Monday at 10:59 AM

Thank you! It's funny how I have never thought of most of these. The only similar word I could think of was "biweekly".