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Noun

1. 1
   Semiotics, the study of signs. countable, uncountable
2. 2
   (philosophy) a philosophical theory of the functions of signs and symbols wordnet
3. 3
   The science of the signs or symptoms of disease; symptomatology. countable, dated, uncountable
4. 4
   The art of using signs in signalling. countable, dated, uncountable
5. 5
   The symptom expression of an epileptic seizure. countable, uncountable

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semioticssemiotics

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"Umberto Eco is a thinker who has written extensively on semiology."

Etymology

From New Latin semaeologia, from Ancient Greek σημεῖον (sēmeîon, “sign”) + -logia (“-logy”). By surface analysis, semio- + -logy.

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