polysemy
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polysemy (uncountable)
- (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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ability to have multiple meanings