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If an oxymoron unintentionally combines contradictory
terms, then an antioxymoron unintentionally combines
complementary terms.
A sign reading "Criminal Lawyers" displays an antioxymoron.
Although, that could also be considered an oxymoron
depending on how one feels about lawyers.
Machine
Gun would also qualify because the two terms are
equivalent.
Cover Page is also an antioxymoron, although now the
concept seems to only indicate redundancy.
Saturday Evening Post Cover Page Police Brutality AntiOxymoron
http://www.saturday...onic-policeman.html
[jurist, Aug 13 2012]
Pleonasm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleonasm
[xaviergisz, Aug 13 2012]
[link]
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That's only one word m'lord. |
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baboons come in troops. The internet told me so. |
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Psycho Killer qu'est-ce que c'est? |
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While I would agree that "police brutality" is an oxymoron, isn't the point of an antioxymoron that it is intended to connote a positive attribute, as in the suggested use of "antioxidant"? So, I think that the appropriate antioxymoron of "police brutality" is probably very similar to a Norman Rockwell painting. [link] It ends up meaning the same thing as a hyper-attribute. |
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It may appear to be an oxymoron, until you look at
the sort of thing that the police got up to at Occupy
rallies. |
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"To Serve & Protect... the assets of the 1% and the
rights of their private corporations." |
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Precisely...Therein lies the oxymoron. Hence the Antioxymoron is that the police (or individual policeman, for that matter) might actually serve and protect the neighborhood or constituency or citizenry he is sworn and paid to serve and protect in a friendly, authoritative, and proactive manner. |
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I'm not certain connoting a positive attribute is part of the
relationship between oxidants and antioxidants. |
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Shouldn't this idea be m-f-d'd as redundant with itself? |
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Yes, wikipedia link for pleonasm describes just this. Thanks, was pretty sure someone had already noticed similar words before. |
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