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• n  the semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express the same meaning

• The present bulky show justifies the synonymy.
• The present bulky show justifies the synonymy.

• synonymity
• synonymousness

News & Articles

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• Pumpkin, gourd, squash – who knew vegetable nomenclature was so confusing?
  Here’s a headline-writing tip for October: “Gourd” fits on the page more easily than “pumpkin,” and lends itself to more puns (“Wicked gourd-geous”). If you work at a newspaper, you’ll get sick of the word before November rolls around. All well and good, but is such headline synonymy accurate? I think of gourds as funky-looking inedible little things, while pumpkins are big and orange and ...
  Oct. 28, 2013 - The Nashua Telegraph