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autonomasia

autonomasia noun: antonomasia.

Noun

autonomasia (uncountable)

  1. (rare, rhetoric) antonomasia

Forms of autonomasia

alternative formautonomasy

Questions about autonomasia

What does autonomasia mean?
Autonomasia means antonomasia.
What part of speech is autonomasia?
Autonomasia is a noun.

Words near autonomasia in the dictionary

  1. autonegations
  2. autonepiophilia
  3. Autonoe
  4. autonoesis
  5. autonoetic
  6. autonomasia
  7. autonomasy
  8. autonomation
  9. autonomic
  10. autonomic ganglia
  11. autonomic ganglion

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