Antonym vs. Logos — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Antonym and Logos
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Antonym
A word having a meaning opposite to that of another word
The word "wet" is an antonym of the word "dry.".
Logos
Logos (UK: , US: ; Ancient Greek: λόγος, romanized: lógos; from λέγω, légō, lit. ''I say'') is a term in Western philosophy, psychology, rhetoric, and religion derived from a Greek word variously meaning "ground", "plea", "opinion", "expectation", "word", "speech", "account", "reason", "proportion", and "discourse". It became a technical term in Western philosophy beginning with Heraclitus (c. 535 – c. 475 BC), who used the term for a principle of order and knowledge.Ancient Greek philosophers used the term in different ways.
Antonym
(semantics) A word which has the opposite meaning of another word.
“rich” is an antonym of “poor”; “full” is an antonym of “empty”
Logos
The Word of God, or principle of divine reason and creative order, identified in the Gospel of John with the second person of the Trinity incarnate in Jesus Christ.
Antonym
A word that describes one end of a scale, while its opposite describes the other end, such as large versus small; a gradable antonym.
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Logos
(in Jungian psychology) the principle of reason and judgement, associated with the animus.
Antonym
A word of opposite meaning; a counterterm; - used as a correlative of synonym.
Logos
In pre-Socratic philosophy, the principle governing the cosmos, the source of this principle, or human reasoning about the cosmos.
Antonym
Two words that express opposing concepts;
To him the opposite of gay was depressed
Logos
Among the Sophists, the topics of rational argument or the arguments themselves.
Logos
In Stoicism, the active, material, rational principle of the cosmos; nous. Identified with God, it is the source of all activity and generation and is the power of reason residing in the human soul.
Logos
In biblical Judaism, the word of God, which itself has creative power and is God's medium of communication with the human race.
Logos
In Hellenistic Judaism, a hypostasis associated with divine wisdom.
Logos
(Christianity) In Saint John's Gospel, especially in the prologue (1:1-14), the creative word of God, which is itself God and incarnate in Jesus. Also called Word.
Logos
(rhetoric) A form of rhetoric in which the writer or speaker uses logic as the main argument.
Logos
Alternative case form of Logos
Logos
A word; reason; speech.
Logos
The divine Word; Christ.
Logos
The divine word of God; the second person in the Trinity (incarnate in Jesus)
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