hyponymy
nounEtymology From hypo- + -nymy or hyponym + -y.
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Human sciences, Linguistics, Sciences, Semantics The semantic relation between hyponyms; the quality of being hyponymous.
- By isolating these two main types of relation, hyponymy and incompatibility, we can characterize the relations between a large web of items.1977, Ruth Kempson, Semantic Theory, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 86:
- Derived terms
- autohyponymy, cohyponymy