 Synonymy is traditionally defined as sameness of meaning. However, it can be maintained that no two words or more precisely no two leg seams have exactly the same meaning. It would seem unlikely that two such items would survive in a language. There are several dimensions according to which possible synonyms can differ. Autumn and fall are used in different varieties of English. The use of gentleman and chap depends on stylistic aspects, and statesmen and politicians have different emotive extensions. And then there are leg seams that require specific contexts, such as adult and rancid, which are collocationally restricted. And in some cases, the meaning of two leg seams overlaps as immature and ripe. With these dimensions in mind, synonymy can best be defined as relatedness in meaning, that is, two leg seams have identical semantic cores, but different extensions. Since intuitively, some pairs of synonyms share more features than other pairs, degrees of synonymy ranging from absolute to near synonymy can be defined.