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synonymity

1790, from synonym + -ity.

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synonymity

n. The state of being a synonym.

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synonymity

n. the semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express the same meaning [syn: synonymy, synonymousness]

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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.