GRADABLE OPPOSITION

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An opposition that is capable of being graded

Classified under:

Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas

Hypernyms ("gradable opposition" is a kind of...):

oppositeness; opposition (the relation between opposed entities)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gradable opposition"):

polar opposition (an opposition that can be graded between two extremes or poles)

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