What's the difference between caconym and misnomer?

Caconym


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Misnomer


Definition:

  • (n.) The misnaming of a person in a legal instrument, as in a complaint or indictment; any misnaming of a person or thing; a wrong or inapplicable name or title.
  • (v. t.) To misname.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Gonzalez acknowledged that the term "Russian mafia" was something of a misnomer since the criminal groups sometimes involved Ukrainians, Georgians, Belarussians and Chechens.
  • (2) The term "threatened abortion" is often a misnomer, for the fate of the pregnancy is decided when bleeding occurs.
  • (3) Perhaps due to the misnomer, annular or honeycomblike subepithelial opacities have come to be regarded as Reis-Bücklers' dystrophy.
  • (4) Because the Living Will advances the concept of negative euthanasia--an ethical, legal, and political misnomer--and abets the effort to legalize positive or direct euthanasia, it should not be given legal recognition.
  • (5) As the acrosyringium does not take part in formation of a dyshidrotic vesicle, the term "dyshidrosis" has to be regarded as a misnomer.
  • (6) Thus, so-called "nonspecific binding" was unmasked as a misnomer, and the expression "correction for trapping" was proposed as a substitute.
  • (7) The misnomer was coined by white explorers who rediscovered the ruins in 1860 and reasoned that the spectacular place must have been built for a king.
  • (8) ;Pseudomyxoma peritonei' is a misnomer and is caused by dissemination of a mucinous cystadenocarcinoma within the peritoneal cavity.
  • (9) It also shows that the term anesthesia is a misnomer for this modality, and that it should be called acupuncture analgesia.
  • (10) In these patients, EL seems to be a misnomer since the findings are suggestive of acute myeloblastic leukemia with secondary erythroid and granulocytic hyperplasia.
  • (11) Analysis : HS3 is a curious misnomer – at least when compared to HS2.
  • (12) The term "nasal glioma" is a confusing misnomer as it implies a neoplastic condition with malignant potential, which it is not.
  • (13) George suggests that “waste” is actually a misnomer since human faeces is an inexhaustible source of valuable nutrients.
  • (14) The "post-lunch dip" is a common behavioral phenomenon, though perhaps a misnomer.
  • (15) This so-called lupus anticoagulant was originally described in patients with systemic lupus erythematosus but is a misnomer as it is more frequently encountered in patients without lupus.
  • (16) In view of the increasing number of reports of this disease from other parts of Africa and the rest of the world, one wonders whether North American blastomycosis is not a misnomer.
  • (17) But critics have warned that the plans are incoherent and are being driven by private housebuilders, and that Osborne’s garden city label is a misnomer.
  • (18) To call the cartels “narcos”, as almost all media in the US and Mexico do, is a misnomer.
  • (19) Leaving aside for a second the misnomer “nontraditional” (cough, since the dawn of time, cough), it turns out Mizulina may have been right: for the gays are running riot.
  • (20) It was suggested that the term "nonspecific" vaginitis is a misnomer and is used to conceal ignorance.

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