Vocabulary Inflation
Kind: anti-pattern
Layer: Structural Core
Aliases: Overlapping Word
Record: lexicon:vocabulary-inflation
Canonical: Lexicon
Admitting a word whose role a declared word already covers, such as a synonym or an abbreviation of it, so one role gets two words and classification gets two right answers.
Listed in Lexicon terms, after Borrowed Synonymy and before Ignore-List Silencing.