Semanteme

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    an indivisible unit of meaning.

    "Toong Cheong spoke more rapidly now, and urgency and embarrassment reduced his speech to essential semantemes."

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lexeme

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"Toong Cheong spoke more rapidly now, and urgency and embarrassment reduced his speech to essential semantemes."

Etymology

From semantic + -eme.

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