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Paronyms are words that are pronounced or written in a similar way but which have different lexical meanings. Paronyms contrast with homonyms, which are words with different meaning having the same pronunciation or spelling. Examples of English paronyms include:
alternately and alternatively
collision and collusion
conjuncture and conjecture
eclipse and ellipse
excise and exercise
prolepsis and proslepsis
continuous and contiguous
affect and effect
upmost and utmost
deprecate and depreciate
The term paronym can also refer to words that are derived from the same root, i.e. cognate words.[1]
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Look up paronym in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Paronyms are words that are pronounced or written in a similar way but which have different lexical...
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