Meanings
adverbpolysemically (comparative more polysemically, superlative most polysemically)
comparative more polysemically · superlative most polysemically
- human sciencesIn a polysemic manner; with multiple meanings.
Even though some names or words polysemically carry sexual meanings, this does not automatically mean that every usage of them in literary texts, even those of a pornographic nature, has a sexual meaning, either explicitly or punningly.
2011, Patrick Spedding, James Lambert, “Fanny Hill, Lord Fanny, and the Myth of Metonymy”, in Studies in Philology, volume 108, number 1, page 113
Origin
Translations
Portuguese polissemicamente
- polissemicamentein a polysemic manner
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