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synonymous

adj
/sɪˈnɒnɪməs/UK/sɪˈnɑnɪməs/US

Etymology

From Medieval Latin synōnymus, from Ancient Greek συνώνυμος (sunṓnumos). By surface analysis, synonym + -ous.

  1. derived from συνώνυμος
  2. borrowed from synōnymus

Definitions

  1. Having a similar (sometimes identical) meaning. (See Usage notes below)

    • He was not far wrong, for nothing strikes me more forcibly than the universal tendency to grumble: conversation and complaint are synonymous terms.
    • Jews and Israel are not synonymous; nor is support for Palestine synonymous with anti-Semitism; nor is questioning the orthodoxy of the Republican party, which the majority of us do with relish, an insult to Jewry.
    • For much of the time that incels have self-described as such, their collective worldview has been synonymous with the ‘blackpill’.

  2. Of, or being a synonym.

  3. Such that both its forms yield the same sequenced protein.

The neighborhood

Derived

asynonymous, nonsynonymous, nonsynonymously, parasynonymous, synonymously, synonymousness, unsynonymous

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at synonymous. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at synonymous. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at synonymous

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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