when a word or phrase has multiple meanings (from Greek)
experiences his incompetence as ambiguity or polysemy in Spanish
For Wallace, value, kept loose and polysemous, could connect depression's internal discourse
Again, the polysemy of language gives rise to conspiracy theories
fairly drips with polysemic resonances
The idea that populism works when regarded as a certain kind of rhetoric, applied in different ways in different situations, is appealing—but in truth, merely registers its polysemy and returns it to sender.
There is hardly a sentence in English that is not in some sense polysemic, with a range of possible interpretations.
an implicit dismissal of the significance of advertising content in favour of polysemic texts
Note that the German word for “debt” and “guilt” is the same: die Schuld. Not only Nietzsche but also Benjamin probed this polysemy on several occasions.
Walter Benjamin
as I decoded that very polysemous (if I may) sentence
translating one of Prynne’s poems involves committing to particular definitions of words that are intentionally polysemic