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Answer for the clue "Having a single meaning (absence of ambiguity) usually of individual words or phrases ", 8 letters:
monosemy

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Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context semantics English) The property of terms of having a single meaning; absence of ambiguity.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. having a single meaning (absence of ambiguity) usually of individual words or phrases [ant: polysemy ]

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Monosemy is the absence of semantic ambiguity in language , i.e. only having one meaning per word. The majority of natural human languages are polysemous , i.e. having more than one meaning per word. The artificial language Lojban and its predecessor Loglan ...