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What is the noun for hyponymies?

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hyponymy
  1. (semantics) The semantic relation between hyponyms; the quality of being hyponymous.
  2. Examples:
    1. “By isolating these two main types of relation, hyponymy and incompatibility, we can characterize the relations between a large web of items.”
      “As indicated in the definition, the obtained ordering is interpreted as the semantic relation of hyponymy on the set of concepts.”
      “In this paper we present a more theoretical insight into the nature of hyponymy and troponymy basing on Fellbaum and Apresjan, among others.”
hyponym
  1. (semantics) A more specific term; a subordinate grouping word or phrase.
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  3. Examples:
    1. “Woman itself has as other hyponyms, sculptress and waitress, but is itself a hyponym of adult.”
      “In many instances, there are abbreviations for the hyponym, but no abbreviation for the more general term.”
      “No hyponym displayed a particularly large coincidence between the collocate clusters of the hyperonym and those of its own.”
hyponymies
  1. plural of hyponymy
hyponyms
  1. plural of hyponym
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  3. Examples:
    1. “As we saw in Chapter 7, we can appeal to entailment in order to define the relation between a superordinate term and its hyponyms.”
      “Meanwhile, lexical relations deal with sense relations like synonyms, antonyms, polysemy, hyponyms, acronyms, etc.”
      “Then there are a number of linguistic and visual puns, including plays with homophony, hyponyms, homonyms.”
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