homily

Questions about homily

What is another word for homily?

It depends which homily you mean. In the sense “a sermon on a moral or religious topic”, the synonyms are preachment. Across all 1 sense there are 1 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of homily?

WordNet records no antonym for homily. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for homily come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of homily

• Full entry for homilyAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for homilyWords matching from the last stressed vowel onward, grouped by syllable count.
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