Synonyms and Antonyms for Metonymy
Following is a list of 150 synonym words and phrases that are related to metonymy:
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6 Letter Words
similedeixiszeugmaactantmerism
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7 Letter Words
metonymdeicticmimesiskenningtropingsimileshomonymeponymycopularanalogylitotesanaphor
8 Letter Words
metaphorpolysemyhomonymymetonymsantonymyhyponymysemioticsymbolicallusionanaphoratricolonsemanticreferentallegorygenetive
9 Letter Words
ostensionprolepsissymbolismiconicitymetaphorsquotativeassonanceanaphoricpolysemicparataxisekphrasisintertextindexicalverbalismsemioticseuphemismdialecticpartitivesyllepsissignifierhomophonyallegoricdialogismhomonymicdiachronyetymologyabjectionvocatives
10 Letter Words
synecdochemetalepsisanastropheanalogicalmetaphoricepideicticdysphemismcopulativechronotopesymbolicalhyperbatonfigurativeinfixationrhetoricalsententialdenotativedoublenesslinguisticsyntacticspolysemouslexicologyparatactic
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11 Letter Words
synecdochicsynecdochesperiphrasiscatachresissyntagmaticsynechdochelocutionaryparonomasianonsymbolicneologisticreificationdisjunctionsymbolistichomographicnarrativitylogocentricdialecticaltranslativesyntacticaliterabilityconnotativediscoursive
12 Letter Words
polysemantictropologicallogocentrismidiomaticityparadigmaticallusivenessdenominativemetaphoricalindexicalityetymologicalallegorizingdiscursivityperiphrastic
13 Letter Words
metonymicallysymbolizationthematizationsignificationsymbolisationnonlinguisticmetaphoricitydistanciationforegroundingonomatopoetic
14 Letter Words
literalizationnominalizationetymologicallymisrecognitionnarratologicalcircumlocutionlexicalizationmetalinguisticschematization
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15 Letter Words
personificationintertextualitynarrativizationhistoricizationgrammaticalizedextralinguistic
16 Letter Words
aestheticization
17 Letter Words
defamiliarizationuntranslatability
18 Letter Words
grammaticalisationgrammaticalization
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19 Letter Words
decontextualizationrecontextualizationconventionalization
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