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Originally Posted by Tarential
If I'm not mistaken, not all opposites are antonyms but all antonyms are opposites.
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'Antonym' can have a more restricted definition than 'opposite', but outside the realm of lexical semantics, they are usually treated as being identical.
The problem is that a lot of words do not have an exact opposite. If
sweet is a taste sensation, it does not necessarily have an opposite sensation such as
hot versus
cold.