— synonymic, synonymical , adj. — synonymity /sin'euh nim"i tee/ , n.
/sin"euh nim/ , n.
1. a word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another in the language, as joyful, elated, glad.
2. a word or expression accepted as another name for something, as Arcadia for pastoral simplicity; metonym.
3. Biol. one of two or more scientific names applied to a single taxon.
[ 1400-50; synonymum synónymon, n. use of neut. of synónymos SYNONYMOUS; r. ME sinonyme ]