Near-Synonymy and Lexical Choice - Department of Computer Science ...

sionym:near-synonym), but even these words would change the style of an utterance when intersubstituted. Usually, words that are close in meaning arenear-synonyms(orplesionyms)1— almost synonyms, but not quite;very similar, but not identical, in meaning;notfully intersubstitutable, but instead varying in their shades of denotation ... ................
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