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Semasiology

//ˌsiːmeɪsɪˈɒləd͡ʒɪ// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    Semantics; a discipline within linguistics concerned with the meaning of a word independent of its phonetic expression. uncountable, usually

    "Stylistics seemed to have become a four-letter-word in German semasiology, a fact that shows how far official German semasiology had shifted away from Reisig's initial outline, and how different it was from Bréal's semantics of language-use and Wegener's semantics of communication."

  2. 2
    the branch of semantics that studies the cognitive aspects of meaning wordnet

Etymology

From Ancient Greek σημασία (sēmasía, “the meaning of a word”) + -ology.

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