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monosemy

monosemy

English

Noun

monosemy ‎(uncountable)

(semantics) The property of terms of having a single meaning; absence of ambiguity.
(literary) singularity

Antonyms

polysemy

Derived terms

monosemic

Translations

property of terms of having single meaning

Chinese:
Mandarin: 單義性 (zh), 单义性 (zh) ‎(dānyìxìng)
Czech: monosémie f
Finnish: monosemia, yksimerkityksisyys
French: monosémie (fr) f

Georgian: ერთმნიშვნელოვნება ‎(ertmnišvnelovneba)
German: Eindeutigkeit (de) f, Monosemie (de) f
Irish: aonchiallachas m
Russian: моносеми́я (ru) f ‎(monosemíja), однозна́чность (ru) f ‎(odnoznáčnostʹ)