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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

plesionymous en · ADJ

Etymology

From plesionym + -ous.

Meanings

  1. (construed with with, not-comparable) Having a similar but differentiable and contrastable meaning; of or being a plesionym.
    • A set of word senses drawn from two or more languages can be also thought of as synonymous or plesionymous if they meet the requisite conditions. 1993, Chrysanne DiMarco, Graeme Hirst, Manfred Stede, “The semantic and stylistic differentiation of synonyms and near-synonyms”, in AAAI Symposia, archived from the original on 06 May 2021, pages 120–127:

Relateds

synonymous