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autoholonymy

autoholonymy noun: the semantic relation between senses of a word such that one sense is holonymous to another.

Noun

autoholonymy (uncountable)

  1. The semantic relation between senses of a word such that one sense is holonymous to another.
    • Automeronymy occurs in a parallel way to autohyponymy, except that the more specific reading denotes subpart rather than a subtype, although it is by no means always easy to determine whether we should be talking about automeronymy or autoholonymy, that is to say, it is not easy to see which is the...2000, D. Alan Cruse, “6: Contextual variability of word meaning”, in Meaning in Language: An Introduction to Semantics and Pragmatics (Oxford Textbooks in Linguistics), Oxford University Press...

Origin of autoholonymy

By surface analysis, auto- + holonymy, or, by surface analysis, autoholonym + -y.

Questions about autoholonymy

What does autoholonymy mean?
Autoholonymy means the semantic relation between senses of a word such that one sense is holonymous to another.
What part of speech is autoholonymy?
Autoholonymy is a noun.

Words near autoholonymy in the dictionary

  1. autohistoradiographically
  2. autohistoradiographies
  3. autohistoradiography
  4. autoholonym
  5. autoholonyms
  6. autoholonymy
  7. autohomeomorphism
  8. autohomeomorphisms
  9. autohomicide
  10. autohomicides
  11. autohomoerotic

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