What is "polysemy" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does polysemy mean in English? Meaning of polysemy definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "polysemy" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "polysemy": the ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in different contexts) to express two or more different meanings

Noun

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

Synonyms: lexical ambiguity polysemy

Hypernyms: ambiguity equivocalness

Antonyms: monosemy

Synonyms:

vagueness, doubt, uncertainty, equivocation, obscurity, puzzle, doubtfulness, dubiousness, tergiversation, indefiniteness, enigma, unclearness, anagram, dubiety, incertitude, equivocality, inconclusiveness, indeterminateness, double meaning, double-entendre, equivocacy, polysemousness,

Antonyms:

clarity, clearness, lucidity, certainty, definiteness, explicitness,

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