Semiosis
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 Any activity, conduct, or process that involves signs, including the production of meaning. countable, uncountable
Etymology
Coined by Charles Sanders Peirce to describe a process that interprets signs as referring to their objects, as described in his theory of sign relations, or semiotics.
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