autohyponymy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The quality or state of being an autohyponym; the semantic relation between a sense of a term (word) with another sense of the same term.

Word forms

autohyponymy

Etymology

By surface analysis, auto- + hyponymy, or, by surface analysis, autohyponym + -y.

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