Etymology

antisyzygy

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Today it means: The presence of dueling polarities within one entity, thought of as typical for the Scottish psyche and literature. Full definition →

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The story

From anti- + syzygy, coined by G. Gregory Smith in Scottish Literature: Character and Influence (1919).

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