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Re: oxymoron



Max wrote:


> I agree that the etymology of "oxymoron" is itself an oxymoron,

So that makes it kind of like an onomatopoeia.

So what's the word for words which *are* what they define?

A relatively trivial example would be, say, a  five letter word which means
"five letter word."