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hyponegation

noun

Etymology

From hypo- (“deficient”) + negation.

  1. derived from negātiō
  2. derived from negacion
  3. inherited from negacioun
  4. compounded as hyponegation — “hypo- + negation”

Definitions

  1. Implied negation in a sentence.

    • A rich crosslinguistic vein for mining both hypernegation (which doesn't count when it "should") and hyponegation (which counts when it "shouldn't") is that of the inverse readings of proximative adverbs like almost and barely.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for hyponegation. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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