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The term antonym (and the related antonymy) is commonly taken to be synonymous with opposite, but antonym also has other more restricted meanings. Graded (or gradable) antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite and which lie on a continuous spectrum (hot, cold).
In the terminology of Ayurveda (traditional medicine), guṇa can refer to one of twenty fundamental properties which any substance can exhibit, arranged in ten pairs of antonyms, viz. heavy/light, cold/hot, unctuous/dry, dull/sharp, stable/mobile, soft/hard, non-slimy/slimy, smooth/coarse, minute/gross, viscous/liquid.
Hindi: कल and Urdu: کل (kal) may mean either "yesterday" or "tomorrow" (disambiguated by the verb in the sentence).; Icelandic: fram eftir can mean "toward the sea" or "away from the sea" depending on dialect.
In Yiddish, mentsh roughly means "a good person". [4] The word has migrated as a loanword into American English, in the original German spelling, with a mensch being a particularly good person, similar to a "stand-up guy", a person with the qualities one would hope for in a friend or trusted colleague. [5]
A Man of Humility xii. A Man of Prayer xiii. A Man of Sincerity xiv. A Heavenly Man xv. A Zealous Man xvi. A Patient Man xvii. A Thankful Man xviii. A Man who Loves the Saints xix. A Man who does not Indulge himself in any Sin xx. A Man who is Good in his Relationships xxi. A Man who does Spiritual Things in a Spiritual Manner xxii. A Man ...
Philogyny comes from philo-(loving) and Greek gynē (woman). The parallel Greek-based terms with respect to men (males) are philandry for "fondness of men" and misandry for "hatred of men".
Théodicée title page from a 1734 version. Essais de Théodicée sur la bonté de Dieu, la liberté de l'homme et l'origine du mal (from French: Essays of Theodicy on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil), more simply known as Théodicée [te.ɔ.di.se], is a book of philosophy by the German polymath Gottfried Leibniz.
Summum bonum is a Latin expression meaning the highest or ultimate good, which was introduced by the Roman philosopher Cicero [1] [2] to denote the fundamental principle on which some system of ethics is based — that is, the aim of actions, which, if consistently pursued, will lead to the best possible life.