plesionymous
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]plesionymous (not comparable)
- (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.