autohypernym
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Etymology
From auto- + hypernym; by surface analysis, auto- + hyper- + -nym.
Noun
autohypernym (plural autohypernyms)
- A word that is a hypernym of itself, displaying vertical polysemy via a broader secondary sense whose denotation is a superset of what the stricter main sense denotes.
- Hypernyms: polyseme, < word, < term
- Coordinate term: autohyponym
Related terms
- autohypernymy, autohyponymy
- hypernymy, hyponymy
- cohyponym (sharing a hypernym)
- comeronym (sharing a holonym)