Meaning of plesionym | Babel Free

Definitions

Synonym of parasynonym.

Examples

“It was suggested in 12.1 that propositional synonyms are 'more synonymous' than plesionyms, which, in turn⟳, are 'more synonymous' than non-synonyms.”

“An immediate question⟳ is when does a plesionym cross a "vertical distance boundary" to become⟳ a different concept?”

“Such a semantic intertextual frame arises when the lexical item 'mist' is linked to its plesionym 'fog' and an intertextual link⟳ between two texts containing these lexical items is created.”

“A word is a plesionym if it is a near-synonym, but substitution of the word does not leave⟳ the same truth conditions. For example, it 'It wasn't misty, just foggy', the words 'misty' and 'foggy' are pleisonyms of each other. […] Plesionyms are often used to indicate⟳ that the speaker is grappling after precision, but perhaps does not possess⟳ the precise vocabulary or technical term for the object in mind⟳.”

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