# Vocabulary Inflation

> 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.

Record: `lexicon:vocabulary-inflation`
Kind: anti-pattern
Layer: [Structural Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/structural-core.md)
Aliases: Overlapping Word
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-vocabulary-inflation

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Borrowed Synonymy](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/borrowed-synonymy.md) and before [Ignore-List Silencing](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/ignore-list-silencing.md).

## Category

- [Taxonomy / Classification / Naming](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/taxonomy-classification-naming.md)

## Negated by

- [Closed Vocabulary](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/closed-vocabulary.md)
- [Agnostic-First Vocabulary](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/agnostic-first-vocabulary.md)
- [Externally Resolved Slot](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/externally-resolved-slot.md)

## Linked from

- [Taxonomy / Classification / Naming](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-taxonomy-classification-naming.md)
- [Refused Tags](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon/lexicon-category-refused-tags.md)