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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   A word that is a hypernym of itself, displaying vertical polysemy via a broader secondary sense whose denotation is a superset of what the stricter main sense denotes.

Etymology

From auto- + hypernym; by surface analysis, auto- + hyper- + -nym.

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