Meaning

3 senses
  1. (countable, literary, uncommon, uncountable)The study of oneself.

  2. (countable, uncountable)The property of a word or phrase which describes itself.

    The words multisyllabic and sesquipedalian display autology: multisyllabic is a multisyllabic word, and sesquipedalian is a sesquipedalian word.

  3. (broadly, countable, uncountable)The ability of a concept to apply to itself.

Origin

From auto- + -logy.

From auto- + -logy.

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Forms

plural: autologies
Singularautology
Pluralautologies

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

2 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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