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heteronymous

Heteronymous is defined as words that are different but that have a common relationship.

(noun)

An example of words that are heteronymous are the words "brother" and "sister" which are different but have a common relationship in that the brother is the sibling of the sister and vice versa.

See heteronymous in Webster's New World College Dictionary

adjective

of, or having the nature of, a heteronym
having different names: said as of a pair of correlatives: “son” and “daughter” are heteronymous
designating or of the two crossed images of something seen when the eyes are focused at a point beyond it

Origin: Gr heterōnymos < hetero, hetero- + onyma, name

Related Forms:

heteronymously adverb

See heteronymous in American Heritage Dictionary 4

adjective

Being, relating to, or of the nature of a heteronym.
Being different names or terms but having correspondence or interrelationship, as mother and daughter.

Origin:

Origin: From Late Greek heterōnumos

Origin: , from Greek, with a different denominator

Origin: : Greek hetero-, hetero-

Origin: + Greek onoma, name; see nō̆-men- in Indo-European roots

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