Associations to the word «Polysemy»

Wiktionary

POLYSEMY, noun. (semantics) The ability of words, signs and symbols to have multiple meanings.

Dictionary definition

POLYSEMY, noun. The ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in different contexts) to express two or more different meanings.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope