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polysemy has 1 distinct synonym spread across 1 of its 1 sense. Each sense below keeps its own list, because a synonym belongs to a meaning and not to a word: swapping one sense's substitute into another sense's sentence is how a thesaurus makes writing worse. Its one recorded opposite is monosemy.
Counts are distinct word forms across every sense. A synonym that appears under three senses is counted once here and shown three times below, under each sense it belongs to.
the ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in different contexts) to express two or more different meanings
Synonyms, antonyms and the broader and narrower relations for polysemy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Full sources and licences.