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Somehow I missed this. Antiaurosemantonym is luverly!
Asativum: how about antiaurosemantonym?
I once started a list on that very topic, Asativum. I'll see if I can revive it a bit with this word.
I like it, too. It does come in handy on occasion, as you so vividly point out, c_b. :-)
I use this word a lot. Nobody seems to know that it means I'm leering at that jogger passing my car at the red light...
I have to agree with snowswim. It's a candidate for the word that sounds least like its meaning. (Is there a word for that?)
Pulchritude. From the Latin, pulcher, beautiful. That was the word that first struck Joyce when Millat Iqbal stepped forward onto the steps of her conservatory...
Pulchritude-- beauty where you would least suspect it, hidden in a word that looked like it should signify a belch or a skin infection. Beauty in a tall brown young man who should have been indistinguishable to Joyce from those she regularly bought milk and bread from, gave her accounts to for inspection, or passed her checkbook to behind the thick glass of a bank till.
Such an ugly word for beauty.