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Seems pretty accurateThree of my favorite views.🤗😘🤗😘
Top view and bottom view are very similar.😏😜😂🤣
Haha yeah, I saw that meme on Facebook a year or two ago I think 😂
Is there a word for a word, that looks like what it is describing?
@Water Lily
Might be iconicity? I’m not sure it’s exactly what you are looking for though.
I don’t think so, I don’t think there is a word for it perhaps.
Thanks though@natasha might “autological” be the word you’re looking for? An autological word is one that has the traits which it describes/contains; such as “polysyllabic” being a polysyllabic word, or “typed” appearing here typed rather than hand written.
According to:
https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/249885/like-onomatopoeia-but-visual
They are called “shape words” like an o-ring or a c-clamp.
Comic book writers have od’d on onomatopoeic words for decades. Like slam, bang, thwack.
The visual aspect I suspect is unique, this could be crowned a term in this forum?! 😃
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