Nonsynonymy

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The quality of not being synonymous. uncountable

    "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""

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"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""

Etymology

From non- + synonymy.

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