desynonymize

Etymology

From de- + synonymize.

desynonymize means to deprive of synonymous character; to cause no longer to be synonyms. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 87 out of 100.

verb

To deprive of synonymous character; to cause no longer to be synonyms.“It is not, I own, easy to conceive a more opposite translation of the Greek Phantasia, than the Latin Imaginatio; but it is equally true that in all societies there exists an instinct of growth, a certain collective, unconscious good sense working progressively to desynonymize those words originally of the same meaning, which the conflux of dialects had supplied to the more homogeneous languages, ”