lexical ambiguity

1. 1.

   the ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in different contexts) to express two or more different meanings

   Synonymspolysemy

   Broaderambiguity

Questions about lexical ambiguity

What does lexical ambiguity mean?

lexical ambiguity means "the ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in different contexts) to express two or more different meanings".

What is another word for lexical ambiguity?

Close synonyms include polysemy. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lexical ambiguity a common word?

lexical ambiguity is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.