nonsynonymy

English

Alternative forms

• nonsynonymity

Etymology

non- +‎ synonymy

Noun

nonsynonymy (uncountable)

1. (semantics) The quality of not being synonymous.

   Antonym: synonymy

   Hyponyms: antonymy; cohyponymy, coordination, coordinateness; comeronymy; hypernymy, hyperonymy; hyponymy; parasynonymy, plesionymy; metonymy, synechdoche; antiphrasis

   • 1966 April, "Paul Ziff", "The Nonsynonymy of Active and Passive Sentences", The Philosophical Review, page 230

     The nonsynonymy of "A woman strikes a man" and "A woman is struck by a man" is readily aligned with the nonysynonymy of "to strike" and "to be struck"

Related terms

• nonsynonymous (adj)