monosemy
noun/ˈmɒnəsiːmi/
/ˈmɑːnəsiːmi/
[uncountable] (linguistics)- the fact of having only one meaningWord Origin1950s: from mono- ‘one’ + Greek sēma ‘sign’ + -y.
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