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paronymy

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Pa`ron´y`my
n.1.The quality of being paronymous; also, the use of paronymous words.
paronymy
the state or condition of containing the same root or stem, as perilous and parlous. — paronym, n.
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The qualitative study is essentially two-partite and, first, sets out to investigate linguistic phenomena which lay down the framework of formal relationships in a pun (and are, thus, in a mutually exclusive way, obligatory for its creation), namely homonymy, homophony and paronymy (v.
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