the capacity for a sign (e.g. a symbol, a morpheme, a word, or a phrase) to have multiple related meanings” (Source)

Mentions

“Rhetoric is a dynamic, polysemic term, of which implications vary with time and author” ➡️

ways to obscure people in photos and have them still legible, memories obscured in various ways, like in painting restoration, also for anonymised political works
public imagery with face obscured, but I’ve seen tattoos obscured in this way too
political journalism and documentary and witnessing

explicit disambiguation

eg on wikipedia, redirect to a disambiguation to make sure you’re accessing the right nuance of information. also a pattern i use here on occasion

thinking on the people who use certain names or designations to hide in plain sight