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me·ton·y·my (m-tn-m)
n.
In schizophrenia, a language disturbance in which an inappropriate but related word is used in place of the correct one.

metonymy [mĕ-ton´ĭ-me]
a disturbance of language seen in schizophrenia in which an inappropriate but related term is used instead of the correct one.


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Some authors consider such 'humansomatic' figures to be metaphors, whereas others (obviously including Feyaerts and Brone) qualify them as metonymies.
To better understand the artefactual metonymies all around us, we can consider how everyday objects are often more than the material items that they seem to be.
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