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noun:  (semantics) A term whose meaning is the complement of another term, in an either-or fashion, such as mortal in relation to immortal.
noun:  (linguistics, philosophy, semantics) One of a pair of words wherein affirmative use of one entails the negative of the other with no gradability.

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