| NOUN | attribute | 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 |
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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. | |
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| Synonym | lexical ambiguity | |
| Broader | ambiguity, equivocalness | unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning / meaning |
| Opposite | monosemy | Having a single meaning / meaning (absence of ambiguity) usually of individual words or phrases |
| Spanish | polisemia | |
| Catalan | polisèmia | |
| Adjectives | polysemous | of words |
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