Synonymy vs Identity - What's the difference?
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(semantics) The quality of being synonymous; sameness of meaning.
A list or collection of synonyms, often compared and contrasted.
The study of synonyms.
A system of synonyms.
(botany) The collective synonyms (all the names referring to a particular taxon, except the correct name)
(botany) The state of not being a correct name, of being a synonym
(zoology) The collective synonyms (all the names referring to the same taxon, including the correct name)
Sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same.
* 1997 , Hydrothermal Vent Fauna'', in ''Advances in Marine Biology: The Biogeography of the Oceans , page 111:
The difference or character that marks off an individual from the rest of the same kind, selfhood.
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A name or persona—the mask or appearance one presents to the world—by which one is known.
Sense of who one is.
(algebra, computing) Any function which maps all elements of its domain to themselves.
(algebra) An element of an algebraic structure which, when applied to another element under an operation in that structure, yields this, second element.
As nouns the difference between synonymy and identity
is that synonymy is the quality of being synonymous; sameness of meaning while identity is sameness, identicalness; the quality or fact of (several specified things) being the same.synonymy
English
(Synonym)Noun
(synonymies)- In 1924 this name was reduced to synonymy .
Antonyms
* antonymySee also
* synonymia * synonymidentity
English
(wikipedia identity)Noun
(identities)- This criminal has taken on several identities .
- I've been through so many changes, I have no sense of identity .
- This nation has a strong identity .