Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

desynonymize

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables: desyn-onymize
IPA

30

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

2

Syllables

9

Unique Chars

Meaning

verb

To deprive of synonymous character; to cause no longer to be synonyms.

Example Sentences

"It is not, I own, easy to conceive a more opposite translation of the Greek Phantasia, than the Latin Imaginatio; but it is equally true that in all societies there exists an instinct of growth, a certain collective, unconscious good sense working progressively to desynonymize those words originally of the same meaning, which the conflux of dialects had supplied to the more homogeneous languages, as the Greek and German: […]"

Etymology

From de- + synonymize.

Word Breakdown

Prefix: de

Inflected Forms

desynonymizes (present, singular) desynonymizing (participle, present) desynonymized (participle, past) desynonymized (past)

Questions

What does desynonymize mean?: To deprive of synonymous character; to cause no longer to be synonyms.
Where does desynonymize come from?: From de- + synonymize.

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