univocal

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Having only one possible meaning.

2. 2

   Containing instances of only one vowel

   Containing instances of only one vowel; univocalic.

   • Eunoia is a univocal lipogram — an anomalous narrative, in which each vowel appears by itself in its own chapter, telling a story in its own voice.
   • I read through the dictionary five times to extract an extensive lexicon of univocal words containing only one of the five vowels.
   • The book's main conceit is to make poetry from univocal words (words containing just one vowel) […]
3. 3

   Having unison of sound, as the octave has in music.

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   1. 4

      Having always the same drift or tenor

      Having always the same drift or tenor; uniform; certain; regular.

   2. 5

      Unequivocal

      Unequivocal; indubitable.

      • These scenarios should not be seen as unambiguous, univocal solutions, and it would be wrong to treat any of them as such; rather, they are just meant to spell out a range of possibilities.
   3. 6

      A word having only one meaning.

   4. 7

      A document containing instances of only one vowel.

      • The univocal is by no means the preserve of the nineteenth century. Georges Perec's 1972 novella Les revenentes complemented his earlier lipogrammatic work by being a univocalic piece in which the letter e is the only vowel used.

The neighborhood

• synonymmonosemous
• synonymunambiguous
• synonymunequivocal
• synonymexplicit
• antonymambiguous
• antonymequivocal
• antonympolysemous
• antonympolysemic