"xenonymy" meaning in English

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Noun

Etymology: xeno- + -onymy Etymology templates: {{confix|en|xeno|onymy}} xeno- + -onymy Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} xenonymy (uncountable)
  1. The juxtaposition of semantically incompatible words. Tags: uncountable

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          "text": "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...",
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