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onomasiological

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to onomasiology.

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onomasiology +‎ -ical

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Examples

  • But in the field of learning disabilities, itself a vague, catch-all term suggestive of many interpretations, the onomasiological problem reached such a state of confusion some years ago -- as described in Chapter Two of the subject book -- that in 1964 the U.S. government commissioned a task force devoted to the terminology alone.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XVIII No 1 1991

  • The method of eliciting and showing the distribution of words, word geography, is onomasiological; that is, one starts with a notion like ` left-handed 'or a "thing" like ` icicle' and tries to find out and then display on a map all the words used in different areas of the country for the particular notion or thing.

    VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol V No 4 1984

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