Plesionym

Quick meaning: Plesionym is a noun meaning (linguistics) Synonym of parasynonym.

Meaning

(linguistics) Synonym of parasynonym.

Example Sentences

An immediate question is when does a plesionym cross a "vertical distance boundary" to become a different concept?

It was suggested in 12.1 that propositional synonyms are 'more synonymous' than plesionyms, which, in turn, are 'more synonymous' than non-synonyms.

Such a semantic intertextual frame arises when the lexical item 'mist' is linked to its plesionym 'fog' and an intertextual link between two texts containing these lexical items is created.

A word is a plesionym if it is a near-synonym, but substitution of the word does not leave the same truth conditions. For example, it 'It wasn't misty, just foggy', the words 'misty' and 'foggy' are pleisonyms of each other. […] Plesionyms are often used to indicate that the speaker is grappling after precision, but perhaps does not possess the precise vocabulary or technical term for the object in mind.

Word Forms

• plesionyms

Synonyms for plesionym

Depending on context, synonyms include parasynonym.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include paleonymy, pseudoloan, pseudo-anglicism, paronyme, expressive, paranym.

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