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POLYSEMY

Dictionary entry overview: What does polysemy mean?

• POLYSEMY (noun)
The noun POLYSEMY has 1 sense:

1. the ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in different contexts) to express two or more different meanings

Familiarity information: POLYSEMY used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• POLYSEMY (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

The ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in different contexts) to express two or more different meanings

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

lexical ambiguity; polysemy

Hypernyms ("polysemy" is a kind of...):

ambiguity; equivocalness (unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning)

Antonym:

monosemy (having a single meaning (absence of ambiguity) usually of individual words or phrases)

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