0 the state of being synonymous (= havings the same or almost the same meaning as another word or phrase in the same language) or the fact that words or phrases are synonymous:
They examined children's understanding of synonymy, which like homonymy requires children to understand the relationship between linguistic form and meaning.
Children learn to accept two labels for the same object (synonymy).
They chose to test the hypothesis that children avoid synonymy in the early stages of lexical development.
As we all know, synonymy in language does not yield to the mathematical law that states that things equal to the same thing are equal to each other.
Scholars have long noted a tendency for languages to avoid synonymy.
Since homonymy is very similar to synonymy, the argument can be extended to the case of homonyms.
Such strategies should also enable students to enrich their vocabularies over time, especially in the case of synonymy and paraphrase anaphors.
Relevant links for message retrieval are not confined to synonymy.
