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inflection has 5 distinct synonyms spread across 4 of its 4 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.
a change in the form of a word (usually by adding a suffix) to indicate a change in its grammatical function
a manner of speaking in which the loudness or pitch or tone of the voice is modified
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for inflection come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.