heterological

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Of a word, not describing itself.

   • The words ultrashort and onomatopoeia are heterological: ultrashort might be called short but is not an ultrashort word, and onomatopoeia is not an onomatopoeic word.
   • A paradox arises when we ask, "Is the word 'heterological' heterological." If it is, it is not. If it is not, it is.
2. 2

   Not true of itself.

   • It is the dream of a purely heterological thought at its source. A pure thought of pure difference.
3. 3

   Not of shared ancestral origin.

   • Growth indices from density and extension of the zones of emigration in explants of rat bone-marrow on addition of various heterological tissue as against the controls.
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   1. 4

      Supporting or attracted to otherness.

      • Bataille's writings in mythical anthropology from the late 1920s already associated the name Sade with a heterological interpretation of erotic expenditure.
      • This produced a bifurcated narrative of identity as otherness, a heterological trope akin to that we encounter in the ill-defined domain of the Caribbean (Sheller 2003, 2004).
   2. 5

      Having or supporting multiple interpretations.

      • By using this language we can express Yoder's vision of the church as a community that opens up these heterological spaces as partial significations of the coming Kingdom.

The neighborhood

• neighborheterologous
• neighborGrelling-Nelson paradox