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Definitions

Adjective

1. 1
   Of, or relating to a heteronym.
2. 2
   Being different words, but having a common relationship, as in the case of brother and sister, which denote siblings.
3. 3
   Heteronymous hemianopsia (blindness in the left side of one eye and the right side of the other eye)

Synonyms

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heteronymic

Antonyms

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homonymous

Etymology

From heteronym + -ous.

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