01-24-2014, 07:58 AM
One is a word and the other is not. 
or one is a word, and the other is misspelled.
Polysemy has a diversity of meanings, such and object like a cross, as it has many meanings as perceived by many people.
ambiguity: means that there is doubt associated with its (that which is ambiguous) meaning. In the story "Young Goodman Brown, one is uncertain if what has been reported is a dream, a hallucination, or the actual truth, especially as it is juxtaposed with the normalcy of the Puritan village right after Goodman Brown has just experienced the experience of very odd and non normal things. Therefore his story is ambiguous.
Both words originate in late Latin, but reach us by different routes.
I'm sure others could give more concise and expansive definitions, but I am generally of the belief that one should do the work themselves.
Dale
or one is a word, and the other is misspelled. Polysemy has a diversity of meanings, such and object like a cross, as it has many meanings as perceived by many people.
ambiguity: means that there is doubt associated with its (that which is ambiguous) meaning. In the story "Young Goodman Brown, one is uncertain if what has been reported is a dream, a hallucination, or the actual truth, especially as it is juxtaposed with the normalcy of the Puritan village right after Goodman Brown has just experienced the experience of very odd and non normal things. Therefore his story is ambiguous.
Both words originate in late Latin, but reach us by different routes.
I'm sure others could give more concise and expansive definitions, but I am generally of the belief that one should do the work themselves.
Dale
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.