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^ "Having many ways or roads; by many ways." ?
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In German, I would use the term "vieldeutig". On-line dictionaries yield "ambiguous" as the only translation of this German word. But I agree that this is not satisfactory for your case. "Ambiguous" has a negative value aspect, while you seem to look for a neutral term. Possibly there is none because, in the end, is there anything which is not open to different interpretations? The closest match that occurs to me is "multifaceted".
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More about polysemy auf Deutsch ( link).
Ceci n'est pas un seing.
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'Chimerical' is also almost but not quite right.
Would 'Chameleonic' or 'Chameleonlike' be appropriate perhaps?
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Thanks for the link, but I think we agree that "polysemy" only applies to words, rather than objects.
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Like in German we have the word veelduidig. No way to come close to this in English. Yet all the time I do not know what's against this word multi-interpretable. Is is because it has to be a short word like f.i. vieldeutig? Or can it not be used in reference to an object? Word
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