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Meaning of "homonymity" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HOMONYMITY

homonymity  [ˌhɒməˈnɪmɪtɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HOMONYMITY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Homonymity is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HOMONYMITY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of homonymity in the English dictionary

The definition of homonymity in the dictionary is the quality of being homonymic.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HOMONYMITY


amity
ˈæmɪtɪ
anonymity
ˌænɒˈnɪmɪtɪ
calamity
kəˈlæmɪtɪ
committee
kəˈmɪtɪ
conformity
kənˈfɔːmɪtɪ
dimity
ˈdɪmɪtɪ
enormity
ɪˈnɔːmɪtɪ
equanimity
ˌiːkwəˈnɪmɪtɪ
extremity
ɪkˈstrɛmɪtɪ
intimity
ɪnˈtɪmɪtɪ
longanimity
ˌlɒŋɡəˈnɪmɪtɪ
magnanimity
ˌmæɡnəˈnɪmɪtɪ
parvanimity
ˌpɑːvəˈnɪmɪtɪ
proximity
prɒkˈsɪmɪtɪ
pseudonymity
ˌsjuːdəˈnɪmɪtɪ
pusillanimity
ˌpjuːsɪləˈnɪmɪtɪ
subcommittee
ˈsʌbkəˌmɪtɪ
sublimity
səˈblɪmɪtɪ
synonymity
ˌsɪnəˈnɪmɪtɪ
uniformity
ˌjuːnɪˈfɔːmɪtɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HOMONYMITY

homolytic fission
homomorph
homomorphic
homomorphism
homomorphosis
homomorphous
homomorphy
homonuclear
homonym
homonymic
homonymous
homonymously
homonymy
Homoousian
Homoousianism
homophile
homophobe
homophobia
homophobic
homophone

WORDS THAT END LIKE HOMONYMITY

abnormity
comity
deformity
difformity
disconformity
enmity
fogramity
furmity
inconformity
infirmity
mity
multiformity
nonconformity
nonuniformity
omniformity
supremity
unanimity
unconformity

Synonyms and antonyms of homonymity in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «homonymity» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HOMONYMITY

Find out the translation of homonymity to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of homonymity from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «homonymity» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

homonymity
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

homonimia
570 millions of speakers

English

homonymity
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

homonymity
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

homonymity
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

homonymity
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

homonímia
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

homonymity
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

homonymie
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Homonymity
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Namensgleichheit
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

homonymity
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

homonymity
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Homonimitas
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

homonymity
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

homonymity
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

गृहनिर्माण
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

homonymity
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

omonimia
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

homonimiczności
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

homonymity
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

homonymity
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ομωνυμία
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

homonymity
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

homonymi
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

homonymity
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of homonymity

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HOMONYMITY»

The term «homonymity» is used very little and occupies the 183.274 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HOMONYMITY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «homonymity» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «homonymity» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about homonymity

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HOMONYMITY»

Discover the use of homonymity in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to homonymity and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Syntactic Structures
... analysis of the notion of "understanding." Cases of higher level similarity of representation and higher level dissimilarity (constructional homonymity) are simply the extreme cases which, if this framework is accepted, prove the existence ...
Noam Chomsky, 2002
2
Paul and Pseudepigraphy
In former times, the books were falsely ascribed in three ways, either because of the ambition ofthe kings or because of the kindness of the pupils or because of homonymity. and the false ascription because ofhomonymity happened in three ...
Stanley E. Porter, Gregory P. Fewster, 2013
3
The Mental Lexicon: Core Perspectives
One interpretation draws on insights about affix homonymity, specifically evidence that repetition of homographic affixes failed to produce forward masked facilitation such that homogeneous French pairs such as BRISEUR-AMUSEUR with ...
Gonia Jarema, Gary Libben, 2007
4
Studies in the Population of Aigina, Athens and Eretria
Homonymity. between. Names. and. Patronymics. If - deme by deme - we match names in the nominative with patronymics in the genitive we find 164 attestations of correspondence between name and patronymic, e.g.: Aristodemos Xenoklou ...
Mogens Herman Hansen, 2006
5
200 Years of Syntax: A Critical Survey
Many phrases and/or sentence's, while identical at a given level, are nevertheless ambiguous on another; these are the so-called cases of ' constructional homonymity': this may occur on the morphological level (the phonemic sequence ...
Giorgio Graffi, 2001
6
Teacher of Holiness: The Holy Spirit in Origen's Commentary ...
Homonymity Origen points out that the Scriptures themselves use many words in a variety of different ways. He approaches this problem through the Aristotelian notion of homonymity, recognizing that one word may name two or more ...
Maureen Beyer Moser, 2005
7
The Form of Information in Science: Analysis of an ...
Here the word produce has two quite different meanings. There is also a synonymity-homonymity among operator subclasses, which is indicated by the appearance of the same subscripts in different operator classes. Thus we have Vi , Wi, Ui, ...
Z. Harris, 1989
8
Forgery and Counter-forgery: The Use of Literary Deceit in ...
As one might expect, there are times when ancient critics have difficulty resolving issues of homonymity. And so, Quintilian wavers on the rhetorical writings assigned to Hermagoras: There are however books ascribed to Hermagoras which ...
Bart D. Ehrman, 2013
9
Outline of A New System of Logic
the present purpose, from accidental homonymity whenever the analogy is real : the leg of a table or the foot of a mountain can hardly be confounded with the leg or foot of a man. But when the analogy is fictitious (or fanciful, as Dr. Whately has  ...
‎1827
10
Inevitable Doubt: Two Theories of Shīʻī Jurisprudence
Bahram's linguistic system admitted that there was a prevalence of homonymity ( ishtirak) — for many words had (at least) two literal meanings, one legal and one literal. For Bihbaham, this is unacceptable, it seems, on purely practical grounds:  ...
Robert Gleave, 2000

6 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HOMONYMITY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term homonymity is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Too many homonymous names to know
Last December, one of the world's great nations struck a blow against irksome homonymity. In North Korea, by dictatorial fiat, there can be only ... «Boston Globe, Mar 15»
2
Iran unveils “a new home made anti-helicopter gun” at military expo
... the event with the name-day festivities of Tiregan (13th of Tir) “presumably” provoked by the homonymity with the Yazata Tir or tir “arrow. «GroundReport, Oct 14»
3
Am I Allowed to Scold My Friends' Kids?
... kid a compact middle name—short, two syllables at most—so that, using his full name, he may succinctly defend himself against homonymity. «Slate Magazine, Aug 14»
4
Slut-Shaming Helen of Troy
... for Greece (Hellas), but also to a verb “to destroy”—a homonymity exploited particularly by Aeschylus, who sees Helen as the “ship-destroyer, ... «The New Republic, Apr 14»
5
Explainer: Bane and Bain
Coincidence though it may be, some Democrats have gleefully seized on the Bain-Bane homonymity. Said former Clinton aide Chris Lehane, ... «Daily Beast, Jul 12»
6
The ontology of biology 1 – What an ontology really is
The homonymity is confusing and misleading. So I want to talk about what an ontology really is, from a philosophical perspective. Think of this ... «ScienceBlogs, Nov 08»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Homonymity [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/homonymity>. Apr 2024 ».
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