Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun retronym

1 sense of retronym

Sense 1
retronym -- (a word introduced because an existing term has become inadequate; "Nobody ever heard of analog clocks until digital clocks became common, so `analog clock' is a retronym")
       => word -- (a unit of language that native speakers can identify; "words are the blocks from which sentences are made"; "he hardly said ten words all morning")