Repetition vs Synonymia - What's the difference?
repetition | synonymia |
The act or an instance of repeating or being repeated.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
(lb): The act of performing a single, controlled exercise motion; also called a rep'. A group of ' repetitions is a set.
To petition again.
* 2011 , Anneke Campbell, ?Thomas Lizney, Be the Change (page 7)
(rhetoric) The use of two or more synonyms together to amplify or explain a given subject or term. A kind of repetition that adds force.
* 2007', Sylvia Adamson, "'''Synonymia , or in other words", in Anderson, ''et al.'', ''Renaissance figures of speech , page 29
As nouns the difference between repetition and synonymia
is that repetition is repetition while synonymia is (rhetoric) the use of two or more synonyms together to amplify or explain a given subject or term a kind of repetition that adds force.repetition
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) repetitionem'' (accusative singular of ''repetitio ).Noun
(en noun)Etymology 2
Verb
(en verb)- The group went through several rounds at different courts, petitioning and repetitioning , losing again and again.
Anagrams
* ----synonymia
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Noun
(synonymiae)- At its simplest (sometimes called synonymia simplex), it takes the form of synonymous words arranged in doublets, .