Synonymicon(noun)
A dictionary of synonymous words. A Thesaurus.
'Synonymicon' is made up of 'synonym,' which comes from the Greek word meaning 'word having the same sense as another,' and the Greek 'eikon,' likeness, image, portrait.
Example:"Some of those early dictionaries, or lexicons, were arranged not alphabetically by word but by subject; some were simply dictionaries of difficult words; some merely synonymicons, or synonym dictionaries."
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