Fig 12. The cosine similarity between axes created from WordNet antonym pairs and cultural axes representing demographic groups can be estimated to quantify the degree of alignment of the antonym pair with the poles of the cultural axis.

An axis formed with words such as maternal and paternal that are obviously related to males and females will have a high degree of alignment with the gender axis. In contrast, antonym pairs with a low degree of relatedness or association with males and females (such as centrifugal-centripetal) will be more orthogonal to the gender axis.