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English
Etymology
From non- + synonymy.
Noun
nonsynonymy (uncountable)
- (semantics) The quality of not being synonymous.
- Antonym: synonymy
- Hyponyms: antonymy; cohyponymy, coordination, coordinateness; comeronymy; hypernymy, hyperonymy; hyponymy; parasynonymy, plesionymy; metonymy, synechdoche; antiphrasis
- 1966 April, "Paul Ziff", "The Nonsynonymy of Active and Passive Sentences", The Philosophical Review, page 230
- The nonsynonymy of "A woman strikes a man" and "A woman is struck by a man" is readily aligned with the nonysynonymy of "to strike" and "to be struck"