α. 1900s– hypernymy.
β. 1900s– hyperonymy Brit. 
/ˌhʌɪpəˈrɒnᵻmi/, U.S. /ˌhaɪpəˈrɑnəmi/.
hypernymyn.
/hʌɪˈpəːnᵻmi/, U.S. /haɪˈpərnəmi/ The relationship between a hypernym and its hyponyms. Opposed to hyponymy.
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hypernymy1971
1971 S. G. J. Hervey Functional Semantics (D.Phil. thesis, Univ. of Oxf.) i. v. 48 If the denotation class of the sign ‘X’ properly includes the denotation class of the sign ‘Y’.., the relation between..sign ‘X’ and sign ‘Y’ is one of hypernymy.
1988 H. Pilch in E. G. Stanley & T. F. Hoad Words: for Robert Burchfield's 65th Birthday 133 Lexical field relations other than antonymy and hyponymy are hyperonymy (the inverse of hyponymy), e.g. purple as a hyperonym of mauve.
1998 Euralex '98 Proc. I. ii. 110 These synsets are linked to one another by the classical semantic relations of antonymy, hypernymy, hyponymy, meronymy and holonymy.
2002 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 99 1742/2 The semantic network is dominated by the hypernymy tree, which works as the skeleton of the set of nouns.
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