Usually means: Uttering words not personally believed.
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  1. heterophemy: Wordnik
  2. heterophemy: Wiktionary
  3. heterophemy: Dictionary.com
  4. Heterophemy: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. heterophemy: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Heterophemy: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. heterophemy: FreeDictionary.org
  8. heterophemy: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  9. heterophemy: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. heterophemy: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (heterophemy)

▸ noun:  The use of one word or phrase when another is meant

Similar:
heteronymy, xenonymy, homophonics, antimetathesis, polyonymy, paronym, isonym, synonymia, homoiophony, homeophony, more...

Opposite:
orthophemy, correct speech, proper naming

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Similar:
heteronymy, xenonymy, homophonics, antimetathesis, polyonymy, paronym, isonym, synonymia, homoiophony, homeophony, more...

Opposite:
orthophemy, correct speech, proper naming



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