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GRADABLE OPPOSITION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An opposition that is capable of being graded
Classified under:
Nouns denoting relations between people or things or ideas
Hypernyms ("gradable opposition" is a kind of...):
oppositeness; opposition (the relation between opposed entities)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "gradable opposition"):
polar opposition (an opposition that can be graded between two extremes or poles)