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Do these two sentences have the same Spanish translation?

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"This policy is good." and "This politician (female) is good."? If they share the same translation, is there a specific term that describes this phenomenon? StellarHalo (talk) 01:08, 11 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Están homónimas. They are homonyms. <-Baseball Bugs What's up, Doc? carrots-> 01:39, 11 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
More like polisemia. --jpgordon𝄢𝄆𝄐𝄇 16:41, 11 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Esta polisemia es buena.  --Lambiam 19:31, 11 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
This is no Polysemy. According to the article, polysemy is an accidental similarity between two or more words. Bumptump (talk) 17:48, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Read that sentence in the article again, carefully.  --Lambiam 20:02, 13 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]
Sorry, I stand corrected. I read it the other way round. Bumptump (talk) 09:54, 14 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]