What's the term for an antonym of a continuum?
Today I was trying to figure out an orthogonal word for "aesthetics", and
was having a bit of trouble searching for it as "aesthetics orthogonal"
and "aesthetics antonym" gave nothing useful—the latter just yielded
synonyms to "ugly". (Didactic was the word I eventually settled on after
coming up with it and double-checking the definition, but that's another
issue)
"Orthogonal" would seem to be what I want, and as a scientist makes sense
to me, but another question makes me think twice about using it in a
broader context.
In short, what is the term for a word that would run along a different
continuum that is perhaps related but distinct, for example:
beauty vs. intelligence
agility vs. power
height vs. width