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semantics
  1. (linguistics) A branch of linguistics studying the meaning of words.
  2. The study of the relationship between words and their meanings.
  3. The individual meanings of words, as opposed to the overall meaning of a passage.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “It is assumed that you already know the syntax of Ada and have a rudimentary understanding of the semantics.”
      “The question raised from this semantics is, where does the causative interpretation of resultatives come from?”
      “It combines elements of logical flow with questions of semantics, word association, and indeed outright mistake.”
semanticity
  1. The quality of a linguistic system has being able to convey meanings
  2. The condition of being semantic
  3. Examples:
    1. “Evidence of some criteria being met can be seen, i.e., they show some semanticity, prevarication, arbitrariness, and combining ability.”
semantophore
  1. The portion of something that carries information or meaning, such a DNA molecule or the semantic component of a Chinese character.
semasiology
  1. (linguistics) Semantics; a discipline within linguistics concerned with the meaning of a word independent of its phonetic expression.
  2. Examples:
    1. “In semasiology, for example, a non-Cartesian concept of person is coupled with a new-realist, post-positivist philosophy of science.”
      “Semantics, also called semiotics, semology, or semasiology, the philosophical and scientific study of meaning in natural and artificial languages.”
      “There is accordingly a very strong sense in which Marty's descriptive semasiology involves a very forcefully stated anti-psychologism in all domains of philosophy.”
semagram
  1. A semantic symbol (picture or glyph) associated with a concept.
semanticism
  1. The belief that semantics is central to grammar.
semantician
  1. One who studies semantics, the science of meaning in words.
  2. Examples:
    1. “A semantician would want to why both sentences are possible in the first case but not the second.”
      “This would account for his action in jetting to Australia and proposing marriage to Doctor Winifred Coburn, a horse-faced spinster semantician nine years his senior.”
semanticization
  1. Act or process of semanticizing.
semanticist
  1. A person who studies semantics.
  2. Examples:
    1. “What, we wondered, does the solitar semanticist in Montana do evenings... Does he and the Wyoming semanticist get together of an evening?”
      “It isn't the kind of a job a Literate semanticist would do, but it's all honest Illiterate thinking, in Illiterate language.”
      “Whoops, I mean that Robert is an erudite semanticist and we are awed by his achievement.”
semanticizations
  1. plural of semanticization
semantophores
  1. plural of semantophore
semanticians
  1. plural of semantician
semanticists
  1. plural of semanticist
semasiologies
  1. plural of semasiology
semagrams
  1. plural of semagram
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