"monosemy" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

Head templates: {{en-noun|-}} monosemy (uncountable)
  1. (semantics) The property of terms of having a single meaning; absence of ambiguity. Tags: uncountable Categories (topical): Semantics Translations (property of terms of having single meaning): monosèmia [feminine] (Catalan), 單義性 (Chinese Mandarin), 单义性 (dānyìxìng) (Chinese Mandarin), monosémie [feminine] (Czech), monosemia (Finnish), yksimerkityksisyys (Finnish), monosémie [feminine] (French), monosemia [feminine] (Galician), ერთმნიშვნელოვნება (ertmnišvnelovneba) (Georgian), Eindeutigkeit [feminine] (German), Monosemie [feminine] (German), aonchiallachas [masculine] (Irish), моносеми́я (monosemíja) [feminine] (Russian), однозна́чность (odnoznáčnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian)
    Sense id: en-monosemy-en-noun-zw8kmb0T Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 52 Topics: human-sciences, linguistics, sciences, semantics Disambiguation of 'property of terms of having single meaning': 97 3
  2. (literary) singularity Tags: literary, uncountable
    Sense id: en-monosemy-en-noun-YZM9N3QX Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 48 52
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: monosemic (english: these two terms are interchangeable variants), monosemous (english: these two terms are interchangeable variants)

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