Lexical Relations:

Synonymy

María Alejandra Varón Cubillos

Yulieth Andrea Sánchez Gonzáles 3GM - Semantics & Vocabulary
Julián Steven Cruz Parra Universidad ECCI
Juan Sebastián Torres Barrera
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Absolute
Near-Synonymy Examples Conclussions
Synonymy
Absolute Synonymy

It’s substituable in all posible

contexts.

 Semantic
 Grammatical
 Sociolinguistic
She is the oculist
She is the eye-especialist
Near-Synonymy

Similar but not really identical

meaning

 Same general sense.

 Shades of meaning.
 Implications appropiate to
different contexts.
 Near-Synonymy

Glad / Happy / Joyful / Joyous

[Business]
Mist / Fog

Profitable / Lucrative / Earnings / Incomes /

Wages / Returns
Cost-effective / Fruitful [General]

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Near-Synonymy
Lie Falsehood

Easy to find or
recognize

Deliberate attempt to deceive Misrepresentation

 Examples explanation

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Conclussions

Same or near essential meaning.

Almost wholly in the same terms.

Interchangeable.
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