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- noun
polysemy
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Examples
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A penetrating defense of polysemia, The Outrage Against Words is essential reading for the state of language and the politics of play.
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In Schiller, the unrestricted freedom of the word proves, ironically, to mark the very absence of ambiguity, undecidability, or polysemia.
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