Poecilonym vs Antonyma - What's the difference?
poecilonym | antonyma |
A synonym: a word that means almost the same thing as another.
* 1977 , Robert H. Stacy, Defamiliarization in Language and Literature , Syracuse University Press, ISBN 9780815621843, page 52:
* 1997 , David Grambs, The Endangered English Dictionary: Bodacious Words , page xi:
* 1999 July 27, "Ucalegon" (username), "Missing aircraft", in alt.anagrams, Usenet :
* 2006 , Nero Blanc, Death on the Diagonal , page 147:
poecilonym
* http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/06/nyregion/06words.html
* http://www.oed.com/view/Entry/146510?redirectedFrom=poecilonymeid29351118
As a noun poecilonym
is a synonym: a word that means almost the same thing as another.As an adjective antonyma is
.poecilonym
English
Noun
(en noun)- 7. This is also a type of poecilonym or hybrid word; cf. such a word as “aeneolithic” (=chalcolithic) in English.
- Maybe we could all use a few spanking old poecilonyms'. ' Poecilonym ? It's an old synonym for synonym that you'll find in these pages. But many words in this dictionary have no real counterparts in today's English.
- >> Is there another word for synonym?
- >Actually, there is: poecilonym
- Take care, though; ‘poecilonym ’ can only be used for the taxonomic meaning of ‘synonym’--an incorrect or obsolete systematic name for a genus or species.
- It's high time I looked for another job and got as far away from homonyms, synonyms, antonyms — to say nothing of caconyms, eponyms, and poecilonyms !