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1. A name that consists of more than three words.

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1. A word with the same meaning as another.

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• synonym

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1. A term chosen to distract the hearer from a less desirable term.

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• The term ‘liberation’ is often used as a paranym for the term ‘invasion’.

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• euphemism

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1. A name derived from one’s child.

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1. An uncapitalized word derived from a proper noun.

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• bikini
• china
• coke
• google
• xerox

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• pojma < Jim and John Pojman, the two brothers who created the term in 1975 + onym < Greek onuma ‘name’
• the term pojmanym is itself a pojmanym

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1. The study of the psychological factors involved in the perception of, and response to, language.

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• the memorability of brand names

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• linguistics

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1. The acquisition by a word of a new meaning under the influence of another word in the same associative field.

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• associative field