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English noun: polysemy

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


Synonymslexical ambiguity


Broader (hypernym)ambiguity, equivocalness


Antonymsmonosemy









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