nonsynonymy

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non- +‎ synonymy

Noun[edit]

nonsynonymy (uncountable)

  1. (semantics) The quality of not being synonymous.
    • 1966 April, "Paul Ziff", "The Nonsynonymy of Active and Passive Sentences", The Philosophical Review, page 230
      The nonsynonymy of "A woman strikes a man" and "A woman is struck by a man" is readily aligned with the nonysynonymy of "to strike" and "to be struck"