Polysemy

Polysemy

Words with several or multiple meanings, as having a diversity of meaning rather than a vague ambiguity of intent; derived from "many + signs". See word, vocabulary, counterword, pleonasm, tautology, puffery, prolixity, sesquipedalism.

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