synonymity (sinonimiti)

[ nonymy. To found any harmonic theories on the synonymity of tones in any temperament, when there is known to be no synonymity in nature, and when the artificial synonymity thus engendered varies from temperament to tempera ment, is only comparable to deducing geometrical conclusions from the mere practical construction of figures. Ellis , in Helmholtz's Sensations of Tone, App., p. 660. synonymize (si-non'i-miz), v. t.; pret. and pp. synonymized, ppr. synonymizing. [ synonymise . This word "fortis" wee may synonymize after all these fashions: stout, hardy, valiant, doughty, cour agio us, aduentrous, brave, bold, daring, intrepid. Camden, Remains, p. 42. IMG:content-2714.png:[blocks in formation] Instead of regarding the practice of parsimony as low or vicious, [the Romans] made it synonymous even with probity. Goldsmith, The Bee, No. 5. Synonymous relates. See heteronymous relates, under heteronymous. synonymously (si-non'i-mus-li), adv. In a synonymous manner; in the same sense; with the same meaning. Imp. Dict. synonymy (si-non'i-mi), n.; pl. synonymies (-miz). [F. synonymie = Sp. sinonimia = Pg. synonimia = It. sinonimia, We having three rivers of note synonymies with her. Selden, Illustrations of Drayton's Polyolbion, ii. 4. A system of synonyms; a collection of synonyms; also, the study of synonyms; the use of synonyms in expre ing different shades of meaning; the discrimination of synonyms; especially, in nat. hist., the sifting of synonyms to determine the onyms. In botany and zoology the synonymy of a species of plant or animal, in the concrete, is a list of the several different names which have been applied to it by its various describers or cla ifiers, implying on the synonymist's part the discrimination not only of the synonyms of the species, but of the homonyms of related species, for the especial purpose of determining the onym of each species. Thus, Falco fusc us and Falco obscurus may be synonyms of one and the same species of falcon, yet Falco fusc us may be a homonym of two different species of falcon, and it may be that neither name is the onym of either of these species. Synonymy in natural history has become of late years so extensive and so intricate that probably no naturalist has mastered the subject beyond the line of some one narrow specialty. Synonymatic lists for single species extending over several pages of an ordinary book are of no infrequent occurrence. See synonym, 3. The inconveniences arising from the want of a good Nomenclature and are still felt in Mineralogy. The attempts to remedy them by Synonyt mies are very ineffective, for such comparisons of synonymes do not supply a systematic nomenclature. Whewell , Philos. of Inductive Sciences, I. p. lxxv. syn ophthalmia (sin-of-thal'mi-ä), n. [ ὀφθαλμός , eye.] In teratol ., same as cyclopia . Also synophthalmus .