English Explanatory Dictionary

use-mention distinction

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The distinction between the use of a word for its meaning (as in cheese is derived from milk) and the mention of a word as a lexical unit (as in cheese is derived from a word in Old English); an instance of this distinction.

Word forms

use-mention distinction use-mention distinctions

Synonyms

words-as-words distinction

Related words

autonymy
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