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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Synonymy \Syn*on"y*my\, noun [L. synonymia, Gr. ? a synonym: cf. F. synonymie.]
1. The quality of being synonymous; sameness of meaning.
2. A system of synonyms.
3. (Rhet.) A figure by which synonymous words are used to amplify a discourse.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
synonymy
noun: the semantic relation that holds between two words that can (in a given context) express the same meaning [syn: {synonymity}, {synonymousness}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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