[ID: Autological word. An autological word expresses a property that it also possesses. For example, the word "word" is a word, the word "English" is (in) English, the word "writable" is writable, and the word "pentasyllabic" has five syllables. A word which is not autological is heterological, except the word "heterological" itself, which logically cannot be either (see the Grelling-Nelson paradox). For example, the word "palindrome" is not a palindrome, "unwritable" is writable, and "monosyllabic" has more than one syllable.
Previously autological: new. /end ID]
























