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synonymy.

A certain degree of similarity between the meaning(s) of several (synonymous) words or phrases. (See Usage notes below.)

8 characters4 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

noun/sɪˈnɒnəmi/
  1. A certain degree of similarity between the meaning(s) of several (synonymous) words or phrases. (See Usage notes below.)

    countable · uncountable
  2. A list or collection of synonyms, often compared and contrasted.

    countable · uncountable
  3. The use of synonyms to clarify or explain one's meaning.

    countable · rhetoric · uncountable
  4. The study of synonyms.

    countable · uncountable
  5. A system of synonyms.

    countable · uncountable
  6. The state of not being the name to be used, of being a synonym.

    countable · uncountable
    sink into synonymy
    In 1924 this name was reduced to synonymy.
  7. A group or list of synonyms.

    broadly · countable · uncountable
    The synonymy of Tachina is extensive.
    Descriptions are followed by a synonymy of the names that have been applied in the literature .
Where this word comes from

From French synonymie and its etymon Late Latin synōnymia, from Ancient Greek συνωνυμία (sunōnumía), from συνώνυμος (sunṓnumos, “of like name”) + -ία (-ía, abstract noun suffix). By surface analysis, synonym + -y or syn- + -onymy. Doublet of synonymia.

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