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ecology has 2 distinct synonyms spread across 1 of its 2 senses. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. WordNet records no antonym for it — antonymy is a relation between word forms rather than concepts, so it is deliberately sparse.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
the environment as it relates to living organisms
“it changed the ecology of the island”
the branch of biology concerned with the relations between organisms and their environment
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for ecology come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.