MONOSEMY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

Meaning:

Having a single meaning (absence of ambiguity) usually of individual words or phrases

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Hypernyms ("monosemy" is a kind of...):

clarity; clearness; limpidity; lucidity; lucidness; pellucidity (free from obscurity and easy to understand; the comprehensibility of clear expression)

Antonym:

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

Derivation:

monosemous (having only one meaning)