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Meanings of synonymy in English

Portuguese
sinonímia

The semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express the same meaning.

sinonímia
Russian
синонимия
Portuguese
sinonímia
Spanish
sinonimia
Catalan
sinonímia

"Synonymy" is the opposite of:

синонимия
Synonyms
Examples for "synonymity"
Examples for "synonymity"
1
That was when, apropos of nothing, he made his remark about the synonymousness of God and the Devil in Africa.
Acts of faith
Usage of synonymy in English
1
The decision to reduce C. lignicola to synonymy under C. herbarum was confirmed.
Pubmed
2
The ideas in your introduction regarding synonymy are precious; would that our linguistic purists were imbued with them!
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
3
Further studies are needed to test the possible synonymy of these species pairs or to determine if other genetic markers permit their discrimination.
Pubmed
4
Most of the groups where two or more cultivars had the same SSR fingerprint included known peach mutants or possible synonymies.
Pubmed
5
Her very title is wrong; as she does not even mention synonymous Scottish words: it ought to be called not British, but English Synonymy.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 4
Translations for synonymy
Spanish
sinonimia
Catalan
sinonímia
Synonymy through the time