synonymy

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From Latin synonymia, from Ancient Greek συνωνυμία (sunōnumía), from σύν (sún, “with”) + ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”).

• IPA^(key): /sɪˈnɒnəmi/

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synonymy (countable and uncountable, plural synonymies)

1. (semantics) The quality of being synonymous; sameness of meaning.

   Antonyms: nonsynonymy; antonymy

   Coordinate terms: antiphrasis; cohyponymy, coordination, coordinateness; parasynonymy, plesionymy; comeronymy; metonymy; synechdoche

2. A list or collection of synonyms, often compared and contrasted.
3. (rhetoric) The use of synonyms to clarify or explain one's meaning.
4. The study of synonyms.

   Synonym: synonymics

5. A system of synonyms.
6. (botany) The collective synonyms (all the names referring to a particular taxon, except the correct name)
7. (botany) The state of not being a correct name, of being a synonym

   In 1924 this name was reduced to synonymy.

8. (zoology) The collective synonyms (all the names referring to the same taxon, including the correct name)

• (sameness of meaning): synonymity (10× less common than synonymy^[1]); synonymousness (600× less common than synonymy^[2]), homosemy (2000× less common than synonymy^[3])
• (rhetorical device): interpretatio; interpreter (obsolete)

• antonymy

• synonym
• synonymia