List of autological words

List of autological words

This is a list of autological words, words which describe themselves.
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*: "Autological words describe themselves, thus "autological" can with equal consistency be taken to be either autological or not autological (but not both)."
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*: "These words all derive from actions the average human being can perform."
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*: "Words that come from what they are describing are autological."
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*: "The word itself makes sense."
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*: "In general, any heterological word prefixed with "non-" and their synonyms.
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*: "Any word that has been created after the period without the "post-" prefix."
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*: "The phonetic meaning of both of these words express a basic feature of a word, that it is accented."
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*: "Polysyllabic is autological because the word includes more than one syllable."
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*: "This may depend on the way these words are expressed."
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*: "The prefix in "prefixed" is "pre-", the suffix in "suffixed" is "-ed" and the affixes in "circumfixed" are "circum-" and "-ed"."
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*: "Derived" came from Old French, which came from Latin."
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*: "At least currently neologistic is a neologism, even if a widely known one."
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*: "The word finite is a finite word, it does not go on forever."


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