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  2. Unity of opposites - Wikipedia

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    In alchemy, coincidentia oppositorum is a synonym for coniunctio. For example, Michael Maier stresses that the union of opposites is the aim of the alchemical work. Or, according to Paracelsus' pupil, Gerhard Dorn, the highest grade of the alchemical coniunctio consisted in the union of the total man with the unus mundus ("one world").

  3. Thesaurus - Wikipedia

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    A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms, sometimes simply as lists of synonyms and antonyms.

  4. Synonym - Wikipedia

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    The word poecilonym is a rare synonym of the word synonym. It is not entered in most major dictionaries and is a curiosity or piece of trivia for being an autological word because of its meta quality as a synonym of synonym. Antonyms are words with opposite or nearly opposite meanings.

  5. Coexistence - Wikipedia

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    Coexist" display at a U2 concert, containing Islamic, Jewish, and Christian symbols. Coexistence is the property of things existing at the same time and in a proximity close enough to affect each other, without causing harm to one another.

  6. Dichotomy - Wikipedia

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    In set theory, a dichotomous relation R is such that either aRb, bRa, but not both. [1]A false dichotomy is an informal fallacy consisting of a supposed dichotomy which fails one or both of the conditions: it is not jointly exhaustive and/or not mutually exclusive.

  7. Converse (semantics) - Wikipedia

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    Converses can be understood as a pair of words where one word implies a relationship between two objects, while the other implies the existence of the same relationship when the objects are reversed. [3] Converses are sometimes referred to as complementary antonyms because an "either/or" relationship is present between them. One exists only ...

  8. Coexist (disambiguation) - Wikipedia

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    Coexist may also refer to: Coexist, a 2012 album by The xx; Coexist (song), 2019 song by Coldrain; Coexist (organisation), an English charity for interfaith dialogue;

  9. Unpaired word - Wikipedia

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    An unpaired word is one that, according to the usual rules of the language, would appear to have a related word but does not. [1] Such words usually have a prefix or suffix that would imply that there is an antonym , with the prefix or suffix being absent or opposite.