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Cross-Linguistic Patterns in Language and the Arts
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What is the term for the phenomenon in which words that sound similar have similar meanings?
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Onomatopoeia
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Onomatopoeia is the phenomenon in which words that sound similar have similar meanings. For example, the word 'buzz' sounds like the sound a bee makes, and the word 'hiss' sounds like the sound a snake makes.