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tautonomy

tautonomy is the alternative form of tautonymy.

Meaning of tautonymy

Noun

tautonymy (usually uncountable, plural tautonymies)

  1. (usually) The use of a binomial name consisting of the same word twice, such as Bison bison.

Forms of tautonomy

pluraltautonomies

Questions about tautonomy

What is tautonomy the alternative form of?
Tautonomy is the alternative form of tautonymy.

Words near tautonomy in the dictionary

  1. tautometers
  2. tautomorphemic
  3. tautomorphemically
  4. tautomycin
  5. tautomycins
  6. tautonomy
  7. tautonym
  8. tautonymic
  9. tautonymies
  10. tautonymous
  11. tautonyms

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tautonomy (page history and authors); tautonymy (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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