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autohyponymy

autohyponymy noun: the quality or state of being an autohyponym; the semantic relation between a sense of a term (word) with another sense of the same term.

Noun

autohyponymy (uncountable)

  1. The quality or state of being an autohyponym; the semantic relation between a sense of a term (word) with another sense of the same term.
    • First of all he speaks of linear polysemy, i.e. relations of specialization (or generalization) between polysemic senses which include autohyponymy (dog: animal species, male of this species) and autosuperordination (i.e. autohyperonymy; man: human male, human race) […]2013, Aleš Klégr, “The limits of polysemy: enantiosemy”, in Linguistica Pragensia, volume 23, number 2, Prague: Charles University, Faculty of Arts, pages 9–10

Origin of autohyponymy

By surface analysis, auto- + hyponymy, or, by surface analysis, autohyponym + -y.

Questions about autohyponymy

What does autohyponymy mean?
Autohyponymy means the quality or state of being an autohyponym; the semantic relation between a sense of a term (word) with another sense of the same term.
What part of speech is autohyponymy?
Autohyponymy is a noun.

Words near autohyponymy in the dictionary

  1. autohypnotization
  2. autohyponym
  3. autohyponymic
  4. autohyponymous
  5. autohyponyms
  6. autohyponymy
  7. autoicon
  8. autoicons
  9. autoicous
  10. autoignite
  11. autoignited

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