desynonymizationn.
/diːsɪˌnɒnɪmʌɪˈzeɪʃən/ The process by which words originally synonymous come to be differentiated in use.
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1862 H. Spencer First Princ. ii. xix. §153 It has been remarked..that with the advance of language, words which were originally alike in their meanings acquire unlike meanings—a change which he [Coleridge] expresses by the formidable word, ‘desynonymization’.
1862 H. Spencer First Princ. ii. xix. §153 The desynonymization of words is the ultimate effect.
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