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.
-- rcarty, Aug 11 2012

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]

compound noun?
-- not_morrison_rm, Aug 11 2012


Tautology?
-- MaxwellBuchanan, Aug 11 2012


//Tautology?

That's only one word m'lord.
-- not_morrison_rm, Aug 11 2012


City Zoo
-- rcarty, Aug 11 2012


A congress of baboons...
-- RayfordSteele, Aug 11 2012


baboons come in troops. The internet told me so.
-- Voice, Aug 11 2012


Psycho Killer qu'est-ce que c'est?
-- rcarty, Aug 11 2012


Machine Screws
-- rcarty, Aug 11 2012


Government Oversight?
-- Carmi, Aug 12 2012


Police Brutality
-- UnaBubba, Aug 13 2012


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.
-- jurist, Aug 13 2012


It may appear to be an oxymoron, until you look at the sort of thing that the police got up to at Occupy rallies.

"To Serve & Protect... the assets of the 1% and the rights of their private corporations."
-- UnaBubba, Aug 13 2012


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.
-- jurist, Aug 13 2012


sp. "complementary"?
-- pertinax, Aug 13 2012


I'm not certain connoting a positive attribute is part of the relationship between oxidants and antioxidants.
-- rcarty, Aug 13 2012


Shouldn't this idea be m-f-d'd as redundant with itself?
-- RayfordSteele, Aug 13 2012


Yes, wikipedia link for pleonasm describes just this. Thanks, was pretty sure someone had already noticed similar words before.
-- rcarty, Aug 13 2012



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