autohyponymy

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noun

The quality or state of being an autohyponym; the semantic relation between a sense of a term (word) with another sense of the same term.

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Meanings

nounautohyponymy (uncountable)
  1. uncountablehuman sciencesThe quality or state of being an autohyponym; the semantic relation between a sense of a term (word) with another sense of the same term.

    First of all he speaks of linear polysemy, i.e. relations of specialization (or generalization) between polysemic senses which include autohyponymy (dog: animal species, male of this species) and autosuperordination (i.e. autohyperonymy; man: human male, human race) […]

    2013, Aleš Klégr, “The limits of polysemy: enantiosemy”, in Linguistica Pragensia, volume 23, number 2, Prague: Charles University, Faculty of Arts, pages 9–10

Origin

By surface analysis, auto- + hyponymy, or, by surface analysis, autohyponym + -y.

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Chicago

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