English

Noun

xenonymy ‎(uncountable)

1. The juxtaposition of semantically incompatible words.
   • 2000, Tony Bex, ‎Michael Burke, & ‎Peter Stockwell, Contextualized Stylistics: In Honour of Peter Verdonk, ISBN 9042014911, page 28:

     Cruse calls lexical items which create such dissonance xenonyms; where such odd or incompatible lexical semantic relations are arranged across and between sentences we might call the overall effect cognitive xenonymy.

   • 2012, Joe Bray, ‎Alison Gibbons, ‎& Brian McHale, The Routledge Companion to Experimental Literature, ISBN 1136301747, page 57:

     The lobster telephone, the dissonant xenonymy of accidents in a chainpoem, the urinal in the art gallery and the sound poem at a literary evening are all only singularly convulsive.

   • 2013, Romina Vergari, “Aspects of Polysemy in Biblical Greek. A Preliminary Study for a New Lexicographical Resource”, in Digital Humanitiesin Biblical, Early Jewish and Early Christian Studies:

     A lexicon can therefore be said to correspond more to a dynamic system of relations: a) syntagmatic sense relations between lexical units in the same string, ie philonymy, xenonymy, tautonymy; b) paradigmatic sense relations between lexical units occurring in a given combination, and a set of possibilities provided by the language...