heteronymously

Variant of heteronymous

adjective

  1. of, or having the nature of, a heteronym
  2. having different names: said as of a pair of correlatives: “son” and “daughter” are heteronymous
  3. 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

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