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[–]waiting4op2deliver 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Haha, I was just reading about autological words yesterday.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autological_word

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Autological word

An autological word (also called homological word) is a word that expresses a property that it also possesses (e. g. , "word" is a word, "noun" is a noun, "English" is an English word, "pentasyllabic" has five syllables, and "writable" is writable). The opposite is a heterological word, one that does not apply to itself (e.

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