paleonymy
/ˌpeɪliˈɑnɪmi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The connotations that a word carries due to its historical meaning or meanings.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Paleonymy stands in Takeuchi's text as a device to think such older words or concepts anew, therebv allowing them to effectively intervene in critical discourse."
- "A paleonymy proceeds by continuing to use an old, traditional name while making the name different from what it always was, because one or more of the predicates associated with that name is being rethought and reworked."
- "In his introduction, he begins with the problem of paleonymy, the summoning up of old names in new circumstances, writing self-consciously about the form in which his text will present itself."
- "I use the word "humanities," as the expression "English department," with a keen sense of the value of paleonymy."
- "It is my belief that unless the paleonymy of the language is felt in some rough historical or etymological way, the translator is unequal to her task."
- "I should not have used this phrase because the word "violence" has a kind of paleonymy that suggests bad stuff."
Etymology
From paleo- + -onymy.