synonymy
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9.0
- noun
- /sɪˈnɑːnəmi/
- Specialized
- Understanding synonymy helps students expand their vocabulary and improve their writing skills.
Examples
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Understanding this allows us to reject the instrumental notions of governance that establish an easy synonymy between political productivity and good governance.
Academic text (2003) -
The synonymy is credited in a footnote to Ives Goddard. 2. Arthur C. Parker, ed., "List of Active Members," Quarterly Journal of the Society of American Indians 1, no. 2 (1913): 247-49.
Academic text (2010) -
Of course it knows synonymy, it knows hyponymy.
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We usually think of attention as synonymous with consciousness, but it is an uneasy synonymy.
Blog text (7) -
In linguistics, synonymy refers to the relationship between words that have similar meanings.
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The synonymy between 'happy' and 'joyful' makes them interchangeable in many sentences.
Synonyms
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6.2
A situation where two things have the same value, meaning, or effect
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6.7
Being equal in value, amount, or function
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7.2
A connection between what words, phrases, or sentences mean
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8.2
A situation where two words have the same or very similar meaning
A state when several words have the same meaning
Antonyms
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Morphology
Etymology
Synonymy comes from Greek parts syn- 'together' and onym 'name', the same parts you see in the common word synonym. So synonymy is the state of words 'being together in name', meaning they have the same or very similar meaning, and that is why it names the relationship between such words.