homonymy

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And, by a strange chance of homonymy, his title remained unchanged despite his change of estate.

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  1. noun The quality or condition of being homonymous.

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  • Through polysemy and homonymy, a word that is pronounced or spelled the same way can have opposite meanings.
  • And, by a strange chance of homonymy, his title remained unchanged despite his change of estate. —  The Life of Cesare Borgia
  • To say nothing here of the homonymy of the word _indifferent_, but to take it in that signification which concerneth our present purpose, it signifieth such a mean betwixt good and evil in human actions, as is alike distant from both these extremes, and yet susceptive of either of them. —  The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2)
  • General homology, in Gegenbaur's sense, relates to resemblances of organs within the organism, and includes four kinds of resemblance, homotypy, homodynamy, homonomy and homonymy. —  Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
  • a transverse axis of the body; homonymy is a sort of metamerism in secondary parts (not the main axis) of the body, and is shown by the various divisions of the appendages (_Grundzüge_, p. 80). —  Form and Function A Contribution to the History of Animal Morphology
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  1. = French homonymie = Spanish homonomía = Portuguese homonymia = Italian omonimia, from Greek ὁμωνυμία, a having the same name, identity, ambiguity, from ὁμώνυμος: see homonym, homonymous.
 

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/həˈmɑnɪmi/
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