POLYSEMY

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

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

ambiguity; equivocalness (unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning)

Antonym:

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

Derivation:

polysemous (of words; having many meanings)