Glossary about Controlled Vocabularies tematres thesaurus, thesauri, information retrieval, controlled vocabularies, glossary, definitions, structured vocabularies, facets, faceted classification 1998-12-31 2011-12-13 10:39:06 en near synonymyquasi-synonymy Also called quasi-synonymy. The characteristic of a term with meaning that is regarded as different from another term, but the terms are treated as equivalents for the purposes of broadening retrieval. 2011-08-16 23:06:52