Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

adnomination

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: ad-nom-i-na-tion
IPA

15

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

5

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

A form of wordplay in which phonetically similar words are juxtaposed.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"The flurry of adnomination (varying a "root" term with prefixes and suffixes, as "luminous," by a kind of home etymology, is turned into "voluminous") — this flurry of punning settles into a joke out of a farce..."
"Characteristically, a rhetorical figure called “adnomination” is used, which repeats noun root in verb root or vice versa (for ex . “passing without passport” or “Slaves of the bourgeois class, daily and hourly enslaved”) ."
"In strophe D, the repetition of the stem אבל produces alliteration and can be described as adnomination (the repetition of words with the same root)."

Etymology

From Latin ad nōmen + -tion.

Usage

Inflected Forms

adnominations (plural)

Questions

What does adnomination mean?: A form of wordplay in which phonetically similar words are juxtaposed.
Where does adnomination come from?: From Latin ad nōmen + -tion.

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