English

Noun

adnomination ‎(uncountable)

1. A form of wordplay in which phonetically similar words are juxtaposed.
   • 1994, Mary Kinzie, The judge is fury: dislocation and form in poetry, page 138:

     The flurry of adnomination (varying a "root" term with prefixes and suffixes, as "luminous," by a kind of home etymology, is turned into "voluminous") — this flurry of punning settles into a joke out of a farce...

   • 2013, Darko Suvin, In Leviathan's Belly: Essays for a Counter-Revolutionary Time, ISBN 1434443698:

     Characteristically, a rhetorical figure called “adnomination” is used, which repeats noun root in verb root or vice versa (for ex . “passing without passport” or “Slaves of the bourgeois class, daily and hourly enslaved”) .

   • 2013, PJ Botha, “Psalm 53 in canonical perspective”, in Old Testament Essays:

     In strophe D, the repetition of the stem אבל produces alliteration and can be described as adnomination (the repetition of words with the same root).