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Metonymy vs Holonymy - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between metonymy and holonymy

is that metonymy is the use of a single characteristic or name of an object to identify an entire object or related object while holonymy is a semantic relation that exists between a term denoting a whole (the holonym) and a term denoting a part that pertains to the whole (the meronym).

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