• Polysemy

    Origin

    polyseme + -y

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    Noun

    polysemy

    (uncountable)
    1. (semantics) The ability of words, signs and symbols to have multiple meanings.... polysemy, which is the greedy habit some words have of taking more than one meaning for themselves. Erin McKean, speech at TED.

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