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synonymy

noun
/sɪˈnɒnəmi/

Etymology

From French synonymie and its etymon Late Latin synōnymia, from Ancient Greek συνωνυμία (sunōnumía), from συνώνυμος (sunṓnumos, “of like name”) + -ία (-ía, abstract noun suffix). By surface analysis, synonym + -y or syn- + -onymy. Doublet of synonymia.

  1. derived from συνωνυμία
  2. borrowed from synōnymia
  3. borrowed from synonymie

Definitions

  1. A certain degree of similarity between the meaning(s) of several (synonymous) words or…

    A certain degree of similarity between the meaning(s) of several (synonymous) words or phrases. (See Usage notes below.)

  2. A list or collection of synonyms, often compared and contrasted.

  3. The use of synonyms to clarify or explain one's meaning.

  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. The study of synonyms.

    2. A system of synonyms.

    3. The state of not being the name to be used, of being a synonym.

      • sink into synonymy
      • In 1924 this name was reduced to synonymy.

    4. A group or list of synonyms.

      • The synonymy of Tachina is extensive.
      • Descriptions are followed by a synonymy of the names that have been applied in the literature .

The neighborhood

Derived

desynonymy, hypersynonymy

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for synonymy. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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