synonymics
noun1
Synonym of synonymy (the study of synonyms)
- As a matter of course, an examination of the synonymics and of the epic connection could not fail to shed another light than that which could be gained without this study upon a number of passages in the old mythological poems, and upon the paraphrases based on the myths and occurring in the historical songs.1889, Viktor Rydberg, Teutonic Mythology, page 612:
- Synonymics contains the resources of specific significations in a given language, its lexicon, analyzed as the internal relations within and between the word classes.1987, Thomas Albert Sebeok, The Semiotic Web, page 86: