NOUN | attribute | monosemy | having a single meaning / meaning (absence of ambiguity) usually of individual words or phrases |
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Meaning | Having a single meaning / meaning (absence of ambiguity) usually of individual words or phrases. | |
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Broader | clarity, lucidity, lucidness, pellucidity, clearness, limpidity | Free from obscurity and easy to understand |
Opposite | polysemy, lexical ambiguity | The ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in different contexts) to express two or more different meanings |
Catalan | monosèmia | |
Adjectives | monosemous | having only one meaning / meaning |
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