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Apophenia vs Apophony - What's the difference?

apophenia | apophony |

As nouns the difference between apophenia and apophony

is that apophenia is (psychology) the perception of or belief in connectedness among unrelated phenomena while apophony is (phonetics) alternation of sounds within a word that indicates grammatical information (often inflectional).

apophenia

English

(wikipedia apophenia)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (psychology) The perception of or belief in connectedness among unrelated phenomena.

    • apophony

    English

    Noun

    (apophonies)
  • (phonetics) Alternation of sounds within a word that indicates grammatical information (often inflectional).

    • Synonyms

    * ablaut * gradation * stem mutation * consonant mutation * consonant gradation

    See also

    * (wikipedia "apophony")