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antimeria

antimeria is the alternative spelling of anthimeria.

Meaning of anthimeria

Noun

anthimeria (usually uncountable, plural anthimerias)

  1. (rhetoric, usually) The use of a word from one word class or part of speech as if it were from another, in English typically the use of a noun as if it were a verb.
    • Not only is "I googled that hottie" great publicity for the company, but it's fresh and funny and an excellent example of how anthimeria gives English an invigorating slap upside the head.2006 July 9, Ben Yagoda, “Language: The moving parts of speech”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Questions about antimeria

What is antimeria the alternative spelling of?
Antimeria is the alternative spelling of anthimeria.

Words near antimeria in the dictionary

  1. antimer
  2. antimercenary
  3. antimere
  4. antimeres
  5. antimerger
  6. antimeria
  7. antimeric
  8. antimeridian
  9. antimeridians
  10. antimerism
  11. antimerit

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Adapted from Wiktionary: antimeria (page history and authors); anthimeria (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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