🔄 Synonyms of "Hypernymy"
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| superordinationnoun | The ordination of a person to fill a station already occupied; especially, the ordination by an ecclesiastical official, during his lifetime, of his successor. |
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Hypernymy"
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| superordinationnoun | The ordination of a person to fill a station already occupied; especially, the ordination by an ecclesiastical official, during his lifetime, of his successor. |
| hyperonymynoun | Alternative spelling of hypernymy. [(semantics) The semantic relation between hypernyms; the quality of being hypernymous.] |
| hyponymynoun | (semantics) The semantic relation between hyponyms; the quality of being hyponymous. |
| hypernymnoun | (semantics) A superordinate word or phrase; a term whose referents form a set which includes as a subset the referents of a subordinate term—as, for example, insect (being a hypernym) for ant. |
| autohyponymynoun | (semantics, linguistics) The quality or state of being an autohyponym; the semantic relation between a sense of a term (word) with another sense of the same term. |
| cohyponymynoun | (semantics, linguistics) The semantic relation between cohyponyms (coordinate terms); the quality of being cohyponymous (coordinate). |
| antonymynoun | (semantics) The semantic relation between antonyms; the quality of being antonymous. |
| taxonymynoun | The relationship of a taxonym to its corresponding hypernym. |
| homonymynoun | (semantics) The property of being a homonym. |
| taxonymnoun | A word used for classification purposes, that is, one that makes up part of a taxonomy; a name or label for a taxon or clade |
| holonymynoun | (semantics, philosophy) A semantic relation that exists between a term denoting a whole (the holonym) and a term denoting a part that pertains to the whole (the meronym). |
| synonymousnessnoun | The quality of being synonymous. |
| hypersynonymynoun | (linguistics) The existence of a very large number of synonyms for a single concept. |
| coordinate termnoun | (semantics) A term (word or noun phrase) that shares a hypernym (or hypernymic noun phrase) with another: that is, one that names another type (kind) within the same class. |
| synonymynoun | (semantics) A certain degree of similarity between the meaning(s) of several (synonymous) words or phrases. (See Usage notes below.) |
| synonymitynoun | The state of being a synonym. |
| autohyponymnoun | A word that is a hyponym of itself, displaying vertical polysemy via a stricter subsense whose denotation is entirely a subset of a broader sense. |
| synonymicsnoun | Synonym of synonymy (the study of synonyms) |
| syn.noun | Abbreviation of synonym. [(semantics) A term (word or phrase) which is synonymous with others.] |
| cohyponymnoun | (semantics) Synonym of coordinate term. |
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