Defenition of the word polysemy

• Defenition of the word polysemy

  • Capacity, for a word, to have multiple meanings.
  • the ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in different contexts) to express two or more different meanings

Hypernyms for the word polysemy

• • ambiguity
  • equivocalness

Antonyms for the word polysemy

• • monosemy

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