List of autological words

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This is a list of autological words, words which describe themselves.

• autological

  Autological words describe themselves, thus "autological" is autological.

• drawable, pronounceable, enunciable...

  These words all derive from actions the average human being can perform.

• English, terrestrial...

  Words that come from what they are describing are autological.

• sensical

  The word itself makes sense.

• nonelectric, nonnumerical...

  In general, any heterological word prefixed with "non-" and their synonyms.

• postindustrial, post-impressionist...

  Any word that has been created after the period without the "post-" prefix.

• tonic, stressed

  The phonetic meaning of both of these words express a basic feature of a word, that it is accented.

• polysyllabic, pentasyllabic

  Polysyllabic is autological because the word includes more than one syllable.

• cognitive, coherent, comprehensible, intelligible, understandable...

  This may depend on the way these words are expressed.

• prefixed, suffixed, circumfixed

  The prefix in "prefixed" is "pre-", the suffix in "suffixed" is "-ed" and the affixes in "circumfixed" are "circum-" and "-ed".

• derived

  "Derived" came from Old French, which came from Latin.

• neologistic

  At least currently neologistic is a neologism, even if a widely known one.

• finite

  The word finite is a finite word, it does not go on forever.

• word

  The word "word" is a word.