polysemy

Letters that make polysemy

s, o, e, l, p, m, y are letters that make 'polysemy'

Words within polysemy

PO, pol, em, SE, Po, Se are words within 'polysemy'


1 possible definitions for 'polysemy'

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

Under this definition, polysemy is a noun and has the following properties:

Synonyms

lexical ambiguity has the same meaning as polysemy

Antonyms

monosemy has the opposite meaning of polysemy

polysemy as a type

'polysemy' can be a type of ambiguity, equivocalness.

Derivatives of polysemy

polysemous, polysemantic are derivatives of 'polysemy'.



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