NOUN
- the ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in different contexts) to express two or more different meanings
How To Use polysemy In A Sentence
- The artistry of the hidden beauty lies in its polysemy, and that of the visible in its unsurpassed preeminence.
- For it, he drew on Renaissance technical terms, derivations, compounds, archaisms, polysemy, etymological meanings, and idioms.
- The extended mechanism turned out to be capable of giving a principled account of lexical blocking, the pragmatics of adjectives, and systematic polysemy.
- Under the guidance of this theoretical framework, the systematic discussions and analysis will be carried out to explore the nature and prototypical characteristics of polysemy and synonymy.
- Chinese vocabularies have characteristics of indeterminateness, polysemy , flexibility of parts of speech and the lack of morphology changing.
- The extended mechanism turned out to be capable of giving a principled account of lexical blocking, the pragmatics of adjectives, and systematic polysemy.
- Literariness was not merely the quality that distinguished poetics from pragmatics, it was the guarantee and promise of linguistic richness, of polysemy.
- We have relations of meaning such as synonymy and antonymy, polysemy and homonymy, ways of organizing the vocabulary.
- All the words for actual (kinds of) snow have been removed, and I'm ignoring the extensive polysemy of snow and many of its derivatives.
- It is significant that many linguists have sought to limit the role of polysemy in linguistic semantics, if not to eliminate it altogether.