xenonymy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
1
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Cruse calls lexical items which create such dissonance xenonyms; where such odd or incompatible lexical semantic relations are arranged across and between sentences we might call the overall effect cognitive xenonymy."
- "The lobster telephone, the dissonant xenonymy of accidents in a chainpoem, the urinal in the art gallery and the sound poem at a literary evening are all only singularly convulsive."
- "A lexicon can therefore be said to correspond more to a dynamic system of relations: a) syntagmatic sense relations between lexical units in the same string, ie philonymy, xenonymy, tautonymy; b) paradigmatic sense relations between lexical units occurring in a given combination, and a set of possibilities provided by the language..."
Etymology
From xeno- + -onymy.