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The expressive stability of the polish colloquial lexeme janusz and its derived formes The goal of the paper is to evaluate the expressive stability of lexeme janusz in modern colloquial polish language. This main theme is enriched by some background: history of the lexeme Janusz, polish cultural factors and analysis of numerous derivates of the lexeme janusz and phrases containing this lexeme. The evaluation of the expressive stability of lexeme consist in extracting out of similar dictionary definitions the characteristics elements which allow to find which elements are really similar. As a last step comparision of these elements based on: categories of values established by polish liguist Jadwiga Puzynina, degrees of emotional load and type of emotion contained in words in accordance with Robert Plutchik’s pschoevolutionary theory of emotions.