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LEXICAL AMBIGUITY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does lexical ambiguity mean?
• LEXICAL AMBIGUITY (noun)
The noun LEXICAL AMBIGUITY has 1 sense:
1. the ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in different contexts) to express two or more different meanings
Familiarity information: LEXICAL AMBIGUITY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in different contexts) to express two or more different meanings
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
lexical ambiguity; polysemy
Hypernyms ("lexical ambiguity" is a kind of...):
ambiguity; equivocalness (unclearness by virtue of having more than one meaning)
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