autohypernym
autohypernym · autohypernyms
A word that is a hypernym of itself, displaying vertical polysemy via a broader…A word that is a hypernym of itself, displaying vertical polysemy via a broader secondary sense whose denotation is a superset of what the stricter main sense denotes.
Meaning
1 sensesA word that is a hypernym of itself, displaying vertical polysemy via a broader secondary sense whose denotation is a superset of what the stricter main sense denotes.
Origin
From auto- + hypernym; by surface analysis, auto- + hyper- + -nym.From auto- + hypernym; by surface analysis, auto- + hyper- + -nym.
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Forms
plural: autohypernyms| Singular | autohypernym |
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