Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. An erroneous name, especially in taxonomic classification; a misnomer.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A bad name for anything; a name which is in any way undesirable or objectionable.
Wiktionary
- n. An incorrect name for something, especially in taxonomic classification.
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Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘caconym’.
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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-onym, -onymous, -onymic
denoting or relating to names
acronym, synonymous, patronymic, antonym, ananym, anonym, aptronym, autonym, caconym, cohyponym, cryptonym, dionym and 29 more...
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Words about Words
backronym, contranym, haplology, enallage, paronomasia, omniana, scripturient, ambigram, idioglossia, dysphemism, tmesis, panvocalic and 6 more...
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Cacotechny's list
cacodemoniac, alexikakon, hoplomachy, titanomachy, gigantomachy, gigantomachia, titanomachia, scelestic, caconym, obamanomics
mialuthien A misnomer. Jul 19, 2008
whichbe Bad or wrongly derived name. May 16, 2008