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Syllable division and stress derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
polysemy is a noun meaning "the ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in different contexts) to express two or more different meanings". It carries one recorded sense.
the ambiguity of an individual word or phrase that can be used (in different contexts) to express two or more different meanings
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for polysemy come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.