heterological

adjective5

1. •
   Of a word, not describing itself.

   • The words ultrashort and onomatopoeia are heterological: ultrashort might be called short but is not an ultrashort word, and onomatopoeia is not an onomatopoeic word.
2. •
   Not true of itself.

   • It is the dream of a purely heterological thought at its source. A pure thought of pure difference. — 1994
3. •
   Supporting or attracted to otherness.

   • Bataille's writings in mythical anthropology from the late 1920s already associated the name Sade with a heterological interpretation of erotic expenditure. — 2007
4. •
   Not of shared ancestral origin.

   • Growth indices from density and extension of the zones of emigration in explants of rat bone-marrow on addition of various heterological tissue as against the controls. — 1983
5. •
   Having or supporting multiple interpretations.

   • By using this language we can express Yoder's vision of the church as a community that opens up these heterological spaces as partial significations of the coming Kingdom. — 2009