plesionymous

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English

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Etymology

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From plesionym +‎ -ous.

Adjective

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plesionymous (not comparable)

  1. (construed with with) Having a similar but differentiable and contrastable meaning; of or being a plesionym.
    • 1993, Chrysanne DiMarco, Graeme Hirst, Manfred Stede, “The semantic and stylistic differentiation of synonyms and near-synonyms”, in AAAI Symposia[1], archived from the original on 6 May 2021, pages 120–127:
      A set of word senses drawn from two or more languages can be also thought of as synonymous or plesionymous if they meet the requisite conditions.

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