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nonsynonymy en · NOUN

Etymology

From non- + synonymy.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) The quality of not being synonymous.
    • 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" 1966 April, "Paul Ziff", "The Nonsynonymy of Active and Passive Sentences", The Philosophical Review, page 230

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Antonyms

synonymy

Relateds

nonsynonymous