synonymia
English
Etymology
From Latin, from Ancient Greek
Noun
synonymia (plural synonymiae)
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His metabolic processes are now history! He's off the twig! He's kicked the bucket, he's shuffled off his mortal coil, rung down the curtain and joined the choir invisible! This is an ex-parrot! |
- (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
- At its simplest (sometimes called synonymia simplex), it takes the form of synonymous words arranged in doublets, […] .
- 2007, Sylvia Adamson, "Synonymia, or in other words", in Anderson, et al., Renaissance figures of speech, page 29
Synonyms
- synonymy
Hyponyms
- parelcon
See also
Finnish
Noun
synonymia
- synonymy (quality of being synonymous)
Declension
| Inflection of synonymia (Kotus type 12/kulkija, no gradation) | |||
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| nominative | synonymia | synonymiat | |
| genitive | synonymian | synonymioiden synonymioitten | |
| partitive | synonymiaa | synonymioita | |
| illative | synonymiaan | synonymioihin | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | synonymia | synonymiat | |
| accusative | nom. | synonymia | synonymiat |
| gen. | synonymian | ||
| genitive | synonymian | synonymioiden synonymioitten synonymiainrare | |
| partitive | synonymiaa | synonymioita | |
| inessive | synonymiassa | synonymioissa | |
| elative | synonymiasta | synonymioista | |
| illative | synonymiaan | synonymioihin | |
| adessive | synonymialla | synonymioilla | |
| ablative | synonymialta | synonymioilta | |
| allative | synonymialle | synonymioille | |
| essive | synonymiana | synonymioina | |
| translative | synonymiaksi | synonymioiksi | |
| instructive | — | synonymioin | |
| abessive | synonymiatta | synonymioitta | |
| comitative | — | synonymioineen | |