fieldsantonyms
fieldsantonyms is a term used in linguistics to describe pairs of words whose oppositional relationship is specific to a particular semantic field or domain. In this sense, the two terms oppose each other within that field, but may not be direct opposites in other domains. The concept emphasizes domain confinement of antonymy rather than a universal binary.
Identification involves examining semantic fields such as mood, economics, temperature, or brightness and noting pairs that
Field antonyms are useful in corpus analysis, domain-specific lexicography, and natural language generation, where domain constraints
Critics caution that fieldsantonyms are not universally standardized and risk conflating established antonymy categories (gradable, complementary,