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anticategory

anticategory noun: a category that stands in opposition to another category, or that defies the usual conventions of categories.

Noun

anticategory (plural anticategories)

  1. A category that stands in opposition to another category, or that defies the usual conventions of categories.

Forms of anticategory

pluralanticategories

Origin of anticategory

From anti- + category.

Questions about anticategory

What does anticategory mean?
Anticategory means a category that stands in opposition to another category, or that defies the usual conventions of categories.
What part of speech is anticategory?
Anticategory is a noun.
What is the plural of anticategory?
The plural of anticategory is anticategories.

Words near anticategory in the dictionary

  1. anticataract
  2. anticatarrhal
  3. anticatarrhals
  4. anticatatonic
  5. anticategories
  6. anticategory
  7. anticathartic
  8. anticathartics
  9. anticathectic
  10. anticathexes
  11. anticathexis

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