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xenonymy

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English

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Etymology

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From xeno- +‎ -onymy.

Noun

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xenonymy (uncountable)

  1. The juxtaposition of semantically incompatible words.
    • 2000, Tony Bex, Michael Burke, Peter Stockwell, Contextualized Stylistics: In Honour of Peter Verdonk, →ISBN, page 28:
      Cruse calls lexical items which create such dissonance xenonyms; where such odd or incompatible lexical semantic relations are arranged across and between sentences we might call the overall effect cognitive xenonymy.
    • 2012, Joe Bray, Alison Gibbons, Brian McHale, The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature, →ISBN, page 57:
      The lobster telephone, the dissonant xenonymy of accidents in a chainpoem, the urinal in the art gallery and the sound poem at a literary evening are all only singularly convulsive.
    • 2013, Romina Vergari, “Aspects of Polysemy in Biblical Greek. A Preliminary Study for a New Lexicographical Resource”, in Digital Humanitiesin Biblical, Early Jewish and Early Christian Studies, →ISBN:
      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...