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synonymification

synonymification noun: the collapsing together of more or less synonymous words into one common linguistic category.

Noun

synonymification (plural synonymifications)

  1. The collapsing together of more or less synonymous words into one common linguistic category.
    • Specifically, the senior author, after much close study and a long period of familiarization, used judgments to accomplish three qualitative (semantic) tasks: (1) identification: in which institutionally relevant words were culled from the text andmarked for analysis; (2) stemming: in which...

Forms of synonymification

pluralsynonymifications

Origin of synonymification

From synonym + -ification.

Questions about synonymification

What does synonymification mean?
Synonymification means the collapsing together of more or less synonymous words into one common linguistic category.
What part of speech is synonymification?
Synonymification is a noun.
What is the plural of synonymification?
The plural of synonymification is synonymifications.

Words near synonymification in the dictionary

  1. synonymically
  2. synonymicon
  3. synonymicons
  4. synonymics
  5. synonymies
  6. synonymification
  7. synonyming
  8. synonymisation
  9. synonymisations
  10. synonymise
  11. synonymised

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