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The semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express the same meaning
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synonymity
Word definitions for synonymity in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. the semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express the same meaning [syn: synonymy , synonymousness ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The state of being a synonym.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1790, from synonym + -ity .
Usage examples of synonymity.
The wave of rebellion swept over me in an instant, beginning with an heretical doubt as to the sanctity of the established order of things -- that fetish which has ruled Pan-Americans for two centuries, and which is based upon a blind faith in the infallibility of the prescience of the long-dead framers of the articles of Pan-American federation -- and ending in an adamantine determination to defend my honor and my life to the last ditch against the blind and senseless regulation which assumed the synonymity of misfortune and treason.