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autonomasy

autonomasy is the archaic form of autonomasia.

Meaning of autonomasia

Noun

autonomasia (uncountable)

  1. (rare, rhetoric) antonomasia

Questions about autonomasy

What is autonomasy the archaic form of?
Autonomasy is the archaic form of autonomasia.

Words near autonomasy in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: autonomasy (page history and authors); autonomasia (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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