synonymy

NOUN
  1. the semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express the same meaning
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How To Use synonymy In A Sentence

  • Cognition operates with only 2 main relations, much like WordNet: hyperonymy / hyponymy (e.g. cat is-a feline is-a mammal; their "taxonomy") and synonymy (e.g., "buy" means almost the same as "purchase"; their "thesaurus"). Xml's Blinklist.com
  • The traditional translations of equivocal, univocal and derivative are sometimes brought into English as homonymy, synonymy and paronymy. Notes on Aristotle's Categories
  • Sillerpeton is recognized here as a distinct genus, whereas ‘Aornerpeton’ is reduced to subjective junior synonymy with Phlegethontia.
  • In the synonymy of slippery speech, to waffle, waver, oscillate, vacillate is ‘to swing back and forth between opinions.’
  • Paradigmatic relations include relations such as synonymy, hyponymy, opposites (of various kinds), and entailment.
  • This proposed synonymy meant that the species has a long range that extends through the middle Middle Cambrian to the top of the Chamberlain's Brook Formation in New Brunswick and southeastern Newfoundland.
  • However, the synonymy of these terms has not been verified.
  • All these restrictions notwithstanding, Aristotle can claim that the principle of causational synonymy remains universally valid. Aristotle's Natural Philosophy
  • We have relations of meaning such as synonymy and antonymy, polysemy and homonymy, ways of organizing the vocabulary.
  • These are without doubt phillipsastreid corals, but generic synonymy with the specimens known from Poland has to be strongly questioned for morphological as well as biogeographical reasons.
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