Polysemy vs Polyphone - What's the difference?
polysemy | polyphone |
(semantics) The ability of words, signs and symbols to have multiple meanings.
As nouns the difference between polysemy and polyphone
is that polysemy is the ability of words, signs and symbols to have multiple meanings while polyphone is a letter, or combination of letters, that can be pronounced in two or more different ways.polysemy
English
(wikipedia polysemy)Noun
(-)- [...] polysemy , which is the greedy habit some words have of taking more than one meaning for themselves. ,
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