It is designated by the term of synonyms to all those words or expressions that have the same or a very similar meaning, but whose writing is absolutely different, although they refer to the same thing or question.
Also, an equanomless condition that synonyms observe is that they must belong to the same grammatical category. To clarify the concept, nothing better than a concrete example that demonstrates what we are talking about, synonyms of the term happiness will be: happiness, luck, well-being, prosperity, happiness, contentment, fortune, joy, satisfaction and bonanza. From the example it follows then what we mentioned above, that even having different writing, all the terms that we enumerate refer to the same and even belong to the same grammatical category.
In linguistics they distinguish between three types of synonyms. Total synonyms which will be all those words that have the same meaning in all linguistic contexts, leaving aside the terminological considerations.
Then there are the partial synonyms, which are those words that have the same meaning in many linguistic contexts but not in all, that is, there is no generalization as in the previous case we described. An example case is the terms car and automobile, as is known, both terms, although they present a different writing, refer to the same thing, however, not in all the contexts in which they are applied can be well used, so when We speak or write wanting to be more fluent in terms of the vocabulary we use, we must always attend to this question, because it may be that we demonstrate fluency or knowledge of various terms, but we fail in the use of a term in a certain context.
And finally the called synonyms with difference of degree, which are those words that have a similar meaning but with a difference in terms of the intensity they represent when used, for example, laughter and laughter, both terms mean the same in general terms, however, when one wants to give an account that an individual had a lot of fun with some issue, the term laughter will be the one that best represents that situation, since the word laughter lacks that intensity that if it shows the term laughter.
