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Synonymy
Synonymy meaning
A certain degree of similarity between the meaning(s) of several (synonymous) words or phrases. (See Usage notes below.) | A list or collection of synonyms, often compared and contrasted. | The use of synonyms to clarify or explain one's meaning.
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Example sentences (5)
An additional review of the specimens published in 2013 demonstrated that some of the supposed differences between P. kochi and P. antiquus were due to measurement errors, further supporting their synonymy.
More recently, the morphologically quite different families Dialypetalanthaceae, Henriqueziaceae, and Theligonaceae were reduced to synonymy of Rubiaceae.
Semantic Relations and the Lexicon: Antonymy, Synonymy, and Other Paradigms.
The objection to synonymy hinges upon the problem of collateral information.
The synonymy of Triceratops and Torosaurus cannot be supported, they said, without more convincing intermediate forms than Scannella and Horner initially produced.