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Meaning of desynonymize | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C1

Definitions

To deprive of synonymous character; to cause no longer to be synonyms.

Examples

“It is not, I own⟳, easy to conceive a more opposite translation of the Greek Phantasia, than the Latin Imaginatio; but it is equally true that in all societies there exists an instinct of growth, a certain collective, unconscious good sense⟳ working progressively to desynonymize those words originally of the same meaning, which the conflux of dialects had supplied to the more homogeneous languages, as the Greek and German: […]”

CEFR level

C1
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This word is part of the CEFR C1 vocabulary — advanced level.
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See also

desynonymized desynonymizes desynonymizing desyre desyred desyring

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