xenonymy

Etymology

From xeno- + -onymy.

xenonymy means the juxtaposition of semantically incompatible words. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

noun

The juxtaposition of semantically incompatible words.“Cruse calls lexical items which create such dissonance xenonyms; where such odd or incompatible lexical semantic relations are arranged across and between sentences we might call the overall effect cognitive xenonymy.”