Home › Words › A › automeronymautomeronymautomeronym means A word that is a meronym of itself, displaying vertical polysemy via a stricter subsense that denotes a part (portion) of what the broader main sense denotes.EtymologyFrom auto- + meronym; by surface analysis, auto- + mero- + -nym.nounA word that is a meronym of itself, displaying vertical polysemy via a stricter subsense that denotes a part (portion) of what the broader main sense denotes.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.autoholonym 87% match — A word that is a holonym of itself, displaying vertical polysemy via a broader subsense that denotes a whole comprising the part (portion) that the stricter main sense denotes. vs automeronym →automeronymy 83% match — The quality or state of being an automeronym; the semantic relation between senses of a word such that one sense is meronymous to another. vs automeronym →autohyponym 81% match — A word that is a hyponym of itself. vs automeronym →autohypernym 79% match — A word that is a hypernym of itself, displaying vertical polysemy via a broader secondary sense whose denotation is a superset of what the stricter main sense denotes. vs automeronym →autohyponymy 72% match — The quality or state of being an autohyponym; the semantic relation between a sense of a term (word) with another sense of the same term. vs automeronym →autohyponymous 72% match — Being or relating to an autohyponym: a polysemous word (that is, one with multiple senses) such that one sense is a hyponym of another. vs automeronym →autoholonymy 69% match — The semantic relation between senses of a word such that one sense is holonymous to another. vs automeronym →partonym 68% match — Synonym of meronym. vs automeronym →