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What is the antonym of salutation?
This is totally random, but today I was trying to tell someone how I failed to end the email properly. Immediately, what popped into my head was “salutation” which of course means: “a word or phrase serving as the prefatory greeting in a letter or speech.” As you can see, it is how we start the letter vs. ending the letter.
So, what do we call the greeting at the end before your signature? I googled it and what comes up is what proves to me there is a loooooooooooooong way to go with creating content on the Internet (or imperfect Search Engine Optimization [SEO]). I typed in “antonym salutation” and got this page with so much advertising on the page, I couldn’t see the answer initially.” WikiAnswers is good at SEO and as a result, they are the first result in the SERP (search engine results page), but for the person who’s looking, they’re not really getting what they want if the result is all about advertising or has financial goals that outweigh one of the more ideal purposes of the Internet. It’s one of the reasons why I do like Google (even though their avoidance of providing customer service is quite bad).
If you can filter through all the junk, you can see the answer to the question is “valediction.” Valediction is defined as: “A word or phrase of farewell used to end a letter or message.” A bit too much for trying to find something quite simple, but oh well…
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Very nice post, thanks!!!
Thanks!! very helpful
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its very helpful.i wanna give u a small suggesion that can u give the list of words u could find in the website.so that we would be thankful
No kidding! My search took forever to come up with valediction also. Sounds even more “formal” than salutation.
Are they the final (only) words for the start and end of a letter?
Hi, thanks for the post…I was using valediction extensively in an essay I was
writing, but eventually gave it up, and replaced it with “farewell”. Oddly, the
meaning of salutation is commonly known, but I realized that if I used valediction
almost no one would know what I meant, or at the very least, would feel uncomfortable with the word. The usage frequency of valediction must be very
very low…Cheers, L
Very cool research…
Thank you, I was wondering that myself.
Makes sense. I expected it would be “valutation” (to no avail).
Comes from Latin, I would guess
Salve (equivalent of ‘hi’) -> salutation
Vale (equivalent of ‘bye’) -> valediction
I Googled “opposite of salutation” to find your blog post. Thanks for making it easy for me to find the answer to this question:)
J
THANK YOU! I have been searching and digging for the past hour, trying to discover the antonym for salutation, only to discover actual commonly used valedictions! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
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In correspondence, it’s also known as the “complimentary closing” of the letter.
just an old elementary student of the 1950s.
Brilliant! Thanks
I had just asked the same question, although in the time since you wrote this blog post, your blog was the first listing that came up when I Googled the same search terms.
VALEDICTION
Salutation: Good day, greetings
Valediction: Good night, Farewells
This is interesting.
I must say that the post itself takes quite a while to get to the point. Farewell, closing, complimentary closing are valid less formal alternatives. 🙂
Thank you for this 🙂
must be something better and less formal than valediction !