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polysemy

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Noun

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pol=y=se=my

WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun polysemy has 1 sense

polysemy(n = noun.attribute) lexical ambiguity - the ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in different contexts) to express two or more different meanings; Array

is a kind of ambiguity, equivocalness

Antonym: monosemy

Derived form adjective polysemous₁

OXFORD DICTIONARY

polysemy, n. Philol. the existence of many meanings (of a word etc.).

Derivative

polysemic adj. polysemous adj.

Etymology

POLY-(1) + Gk sema sign

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