polysemy

About 0.19 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun The quality characteristic of a polyseme, a sign (such as a word or symbol) that has multiple meanings (senses), often including multiple similar ones.

Similar words

plurisignification enantiosemy heteronymy homonymy polyonymosity polyonymy polyonomy homosemy synonymy colexification

Often followed by

of and is in that as or to are

Word family

polysemic polysemies polysemous