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Sememe

//ˈsɛmiːm// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The smallest unit of meaning; especially, the meaning expressed by a morpheme.

    "Any given word of a natural language in its shared acceptations represents a seme, sememe, or set of sememes, but the profile that we can compile as representing the shared elements in a list of synonymous and parasynonymous words is an artificial construct, an instance of meta-language, thus called a constructed sememe."

Etymology

Ultimately from Ancient Greek σημαίνω (sēmaínō, “I signify, I mean”) + -eme. Compare morpheme.

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