Sense Relationships

Sense Relationships

1. SYNONYMY

   • a word having the same or nearly the same meaning as another in the language
     • Example: car or automobile

2. ANTONYMY

   • a word opposite in meaning to another
     • Example: fast is an antonymy of slow

3. PARAPHASE

   • a restatement of a text or passage giving the meaning in another form, as forclearness; rewording.
     • Example: To paraphrase Freud, sometimes a car is just a car.

4. HYPONYMY

   • the state or quality of being a hyponym, a term that denotes a subcategory of amore general class
     • Example: dog and animal..

5. HOMONYMY

   • has two or more very different meanings
     • Example: the bank of a river, and the bank that gives or denies you overdraft facilities.

6. HOMOPHONES

   • a word pronounced the same as another but differing in meaning,whether spelled the same way or not
     • Example: heir and air.

7. HOMOGRAPHS

   • a word of the same written form as another but of different meaning and usuallyorigin, whether pronounced the same way or not.
     • Example: lead "to conduct" and lead "metal"

8. POLYSEMY

   • diversity of meanings.

9. AMBIGUITY

   • an unclear, indefinite, or equivocal word, expression, meaning, etc
     • Example: For him the drama is in contrasts, the meaning in ambiguity.