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Sound
Each Play button uses your device's default local English voice, or a natural local fallback. The selected voice name appears after playback. This is synthesized speech, not a source recording.
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noun
The quality or state of being an automeronym; the semantic relation between senses of a word such that one sense is meronymous to another.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable
Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences, semantics
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Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: polysemy, colexification
History
By surface analysis, auto- + meronymy, or, by surface analysis, automeronym + -y.
