Pun and Synonym

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Difference between Pun and Synonym

Pun vs. Synonym

The pun, also called paronomasia, is a form of word play that exploits multiple meanings of a term, or of similar-sounding words, for an intended humorous or rhetorical effect. A synonym is a word or phrase that means exactly or nearly the same as another word or phrase in the same language.

Similarities between Pun and Synonym

Pun and Synonym have 5 things in common (in Unionpedia): Homograph, Homophone, Metonymy, Part of speech, Polysemy.

Homograph

A homograph (from the ὁμός, homós, "same" and γράφω, gráphō, "write") is a word that shares the same written form as another word but has a different meaning.

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Homophone

A homophone is a word that is pronounced the same (to varying extent) as another word but differs in meaning.

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Metonymy

Metonymy is a figure of speech in which a thing or concept is referred to by the name of something closely associated with that thing or concept.

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Part of speech

In traditional grammar, a part of speech (abbreviated form: PoS or POS) is a category of words (or, more generally, of lexical items) which have similar grammatical properties.

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Polysemy

Polysemy (or; from πολυ-, poly-, "many" and σῆμα, sêma, "sign") is the capacity for a sign (such as a word, phrase, or symbol) to have multiple meanings (that is, multiple semes or sememes and thus multiple senses), usually related by contiguity of meaning within a semantic field.

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Pun and Synonym Comparison

Pun has 157 relations, while Synonym has 39. As they have in common 5, the Jaccard index is 2.55% = 5 / (157 + 39).

References

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