# heteronymous

> English word · Adjective

## Definitions
1. Of, or relating to a heteronym.
2. Being different words, but having a common relationship, as in the case of brother and sister, which denote siblings.
3. Heteronymous hemianopsia (blindness in the left side of one eye and the right side of the other eye)

## Etymology
From heteronym + -ous.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
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