/,æntɨ’mɛriə/  |  AN-tih-MAIR-ee-uh

Antimeria is one of my favorite rhetoric devices.  It is the application of a word outside of its lexical category – e.g., using an adjective as a noun or a noun as a verb (in this case also autologically called ‘verbing’!).  Even with the words repurposed ad hoc, the missing semantics are filled in by context and their meaning is easily understood.

When particular uses become common enough, polysemes are born.

Examples:

• The slog is giving me a case of the sads.
• I can’t computer very much with the slog gnawing at my brain.
• Thanks to the slog, I feel like I’m stupiding all over the place.

Antimeria.  Use it.

Bene scribete.