Pseudoantonym

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Pseudoantonyms are words only opposite to other words in their specific use cases.

For example, socialism is antonymical to capitalism unless the distinction is made between bourgeois and proletarian socialism, in which case proletarian socialism is the antonym and plain socialism only pseudoantonymical to capitalism.

Pseudoantonyms form weaker conceptual links than plain antonyms.

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