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Polyonymy

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Noun
  1. 1
    The use of many names for the same thing or person. uncountable, usually

    "Near-synonyms: hypersynonymy, overlexicalization"

Etymology

From Ancient Greek πολύς (polús, “many, much”) and ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”).

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